biography
| name: |
Bichat, (Marie-François) Xavier
|
pronunciation:
[beesha]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1771–1802)
|
| biography:
| Physician, born in Thoirette, E France. He studied at Lyon and Paris, and in 1801 was appointed physician to the Hôtel-Dieu. He was the first to simplify anatomy and physiology by reducing the complex structures of the organs to their elementary tissues. His work largely founded the study of histology. |
|
|
