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PROF. J. M. D. OLMSTED has followed up his excellent life of Claude Bernard with one of François Magendie, Bernard's teacher and one of the great figures in the rise of scientific medicine. Trained in, Paris during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, Magendie worked in a period when medicine began to discard the traditions of the eighteenth century and to depend on more critical and exact observation and experiment. Bichat, Laennec and Corvisart were his seniors, and Flourens and Le Gallois his contemporaries. French medicine was in the ascendant, and Magendie, professor at the Collège de France from 1831, contributed to its development by his work in physiology and pharmacology and by his uncompromising criticism.
François Magendie
Pioneer in Experimental Physiology and Scientific Medicine in Nineteenth Century France. By J. M. D. Olmsted. Pp. xvi + 290 + 1 plate. (New York: Schuman's, 1944.) 5 dollars.
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ADRIAN, E. François Magendie (1783–1855. Nature 156, 316 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156316a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156316a0