biography
pronunciation:
[bairnah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1813–78)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born near Villefranche, EC France. He studied medicine at Paris, and became assistant at the Collège de France to Magendie (1841), succeeding him as professor of experimental physiology (1855). He made several discoveries on the role of the pancreas and liver, changes in temperature of the blood, and the sympathetic nerves. His Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) is a scientific classic. |
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