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  Claude Bernard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard was born in the village of Saint-Julien near Villefranche-sur-Saône.
Claude Bernard's aim, as he stated in his own words, was to establish scientific method in medicine.
Claude Bernard's first important work was on the functions of the pancreas gland, the juice of which he proved to be of great significance in the process of digestion; this achievement won him the prize for experimental physiology from the French Academy of Sciences.
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 Claude Bernard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A biologist specializing in physiology) physiologist.
Claude Bernard's aim, as he stated in his own words, was to establish (A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses) scientific method in medicine.
Bernard practiced (The act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)) vivisection to the disgust of his wife and his daughter.
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 Claude Bernard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bernard is France's most famous physiologist and his name is known to physiology students the world over for his idea of the internal environment.
Claude failed the examinations that would have qualified him to teach at the hospital so, under Magendie, he concentrated on research into digestion and the poison curare.
Bernard also maintained that the foundations of physiology were the chemical and physical sciences and that a vital force was not necessary to explain life because biology follows the principle of scientific determinism, i.e.
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 wais:topics:claude bernard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bernard found that most absorption and some digestion take place in the small intestine, that secretions of the pancreas play a role in fat digestion, and that the liver has an important glycogenic function.
Bernard was the son of poor vineyard workers and he never lost his fondness for country life, returning home every fall to participate in the grape harvest in the Beaujolais vineyards.
Bernard proved himself to be an apt pupil, skilled in the vivisection of small animals and carrying out systematic experimental investigations of physiological processes, beginning with the study of digestion.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Claude Bernard
Bernard followed this counsel, which proved the turning point in his career, and the play "Arthur de Bretagne" was not published until long after his death in 1886.
Bernard devoted himself particularly to anatomy and physiology but, being of a retiring disposition and somewhat awkward in manner, he did not impress his professors or fellow students with the power of which he was later to give proof.
Bernard's chief contribution to physiological literature, apart from his original papers presented to various societies, are his "Leçons", in seventeen volumes, upon various topics in physiology.
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 CLAUDE BERNARD - LoveToKnow Article on CLAUDE BERNARD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He died in Paris on the 10th of February 1878 and was accorded a public funeralan honor which had never before been bestowed by France on a man of science.
Claude Bernards first important work was on the functions of the pancreas gland, the juice of which he proved to be of great significance in the process of digestion; this achievement won him the prize for experimental physiology from the Academy of Sciences.
An English Life of Bernard, by Sir Michael Foster, was published in London in 1899.
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 Animal Experimentation: The Legacy of Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard continues to be cited by bench scientists who wish to provide a scientific justification of animal experimentation.
Bernard was sensitive to the distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification.
Bernard's particular understanding of hypothetico-deductivism, coupled with his rejection of all statistical laws, led him to assume that clinical medicine (including epidemiological studies) could never be a genuine science.
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 Claude Bernard (www.whonamedit.com)
Bernard's first publication dealt with another nerve, the chorda tympani, while his doctoral dissertation given on December 7, 1843, was devoted to the function of the gastric juice in nutrition.
Bernard was showered with honours in the final years of his life: he was commander of the Légion d'Honneur (1867), president of the Société de biologie (1867), senator of the Empire (May 6, 1869), member of the Académie de France (May 27, 1869) and its president (1869).
Bernard was reputedly a very kind person, always ready to help his younger colleagues, a tolerant sceptic who stood out in a France where the hatred between the parties was prevailing.
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 Scientist of the Month
Claude attended a Jesuit school but when he left at the age of 18 he had no qualifications.
Claude took a course in medicine and despite his poverty and shyness he just about succeeded in passing the exam to get a trainee position in a hospital.
Claude showed that the liver builds this molecule from smaller molecules such as glucose and it acts as a temporary store of energy for the rest of the organs of the body.
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 Claude Bernard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
laude Bernard (1813-1878) is born in a modest family in Saint-Julien in the Beaujolais, France.
Claude Bernard also discovers the role of the nervous system grand sympatheticin the regulation of the glucose level in the blood and proposes the central notion in physiology of the internal fluids constancy.
"I knew,wrote Claude Bernard, the scientist's pain who, by absence of supports, cannot carry out the experiments that he conceives, and who is forced to abandon certain researches, or to leave his discovery in a state of an outset.
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 AllRefer.com - Claude Bernard (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Claude Bernard[klOd bernAr´] Pronunciation Key, 1813–78, French physiologist.
He wrote An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865, tr.
See J. Olmsted and E. Olmsted, Claude Bernard and the Experimental Method in Medicine (1952); R. Virtanen, Claude Bernard and His Place in the History of Ideas (1960).
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 Additional Reading (from Bernard, Claude) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
French physiologist known chiefly for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor nerves.
On a broader stage, Bernard played a role in establishing the principles of experimentation in the life sciences, advancing beyond the vitalism and indeterminism of...
French physiologist Claude Bernard made major discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion.
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Claude Lorrain, (klod loraN´) (KEY), whose original name was Claude Gelee or Gellee (zhla´) (KEY), 1600-1682, French painter, b.
He was born in Madagascar and studied at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge.
...This incorrect form is generally used in English for the name of Claude le Lorrain, or Claude Gelee, the French landscape painter, born at the Chateaude-Chamage,...
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 Bernard, Claude on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bibliography: See J. Olmsted and E. Olmsted, Claude Bernard and the Experimental Method in Medicine (1952); R. Virtanen, Claude Bernard and His Place in the History of Ideas (1960).
Ronald Kahn, M.D., President of Joslin Diabetes Center, Awarded 2004 Claude Bernard Medal by European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
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 DR. CLAUDE BERNARD (1813-1878)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Claude Bernarde of France, early in life came under the influence of Francois Magendie (1783-1855) who was considered the father of experimental physiology in France.
As a student, Bernarde touched on so many areas in physiology that he was characterized by Louis Pasteuras "Physiology Itself." From research on the pancreas, the liver, he moved on to brain lesions with metabolic concomitants.
In France he shared with Johanon Frederick Horner (1831-1886)- credit for describing the so called Claude Bernarde Horner Syndrome.
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 French Comteans: Claude Bernard, Hippolyte Taine and Ernst Renan
French Comteans: Claude Bernard, Hippolyte Taine and Ernst Renan
The French physiologist, Claude Bernard, was born near Villefranche in 1813.
Bernard's earliest researches were on the action of the secretions of the alimentary canal, the pancreatic juice, the connection between the liver and nervous system, for which he received prizes from the Academy (1851-1853).
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 Bernard, Claude --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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The concept of homeostasis—i.e., that all living things maintain a constant internal environment—was first suggested by Claude Bernard, a 19th-century French physiologist, who stated that “all the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object: that of preserving constant the conditions of life.”
Extract from the 12th-century debate between the Cistercians of Clairvaux and the Benedictines from the monastery at Cluny.
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 Claude Bernard Hotel - Paris - Claude Bernard Hotel reviews - TripAdvisor
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 Bernard-Horner syndrome (Claude Bernard) (www.whonamedit.com)
The British physician Edward Selleck Hare (1812-1838) (9b: Sellick) in 1838 gave a less impressive description of a man with a tumour in the cervical region.
It was more thoroughly described by Claude Bernard in 1852.
A clinical report of the syndrome in a man shot through the throat was rendered in 1864 by the three American army physicians Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), who had been influenced by Bernard; William Keen Jr.
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Claude Bernard: Physiologist by Olmsted, J.M.D. Turgid Tomes
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 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Claude Bernard-Aubert: MAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
French director, screenwriter and producer Claude Bernard-Aubert is known for creating controversial, socially conscious films.
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 Claude Bernard Hotel: Read Reviews, Compare Features & Prices
Claude Bernard Hotel: Read Reviews, Compare Features and Prices
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 Hotel Paris Claude Bernard, Left bank, St Germain des Pres, Latin Quarter
Hotel Paris Claude Bernard, Left bank, St Germain des Pres, Latin Quarter
The 3 star Hotel Claude Bernard Saint Germain is located in Paris in the left bank artistic Paris, Pantheon, the Sorbonne University, St Sulpice Church (Da Vinci Code) and Notre-Dame de Paris area.
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 Hotel Claude Bernard Paris : Paris Hotels
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