Marie francois xavier bichat biography of george

Biography

Pierre Berthier is one of the 72 scientists whose name is inscribed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.

He is the 14th on the west facing side.

Marie-François-Xavier Bichat, anatomist and physiologist, was born in Thoirette (Jura), on November 11, 1771; He died in Paris on July 22, 1902, having not reached his thirtieth year, having furnished an extraordinarily full career.

Marie francois xavier bichat biography of george

Powerful and fertile genius, he transformed all the medical sciences. A first-rate operator, he renewed the general anatomy and founded biology. Appointed chief physician of the Hotel-Dieu in Paris, he devoted himself to unprecedented toil.

In 1798, he made numerous attempts to provoke contractions in the muscles of animals recently killed with metal reinforcements.

Then, to establish, according to his ideas, that the heart is always independent of the brain