Magendie, FRANÇOIS

Magendie, FRANÇOIS, an eminent French physiologist and physician, was born at Bordeaux, 15th October 1783, studied at Paris, became successively professor in anatomy (1804), physician to the Hôtel-Dieu, member of the Academy of Sciences (1819), and professor of Anatomy in the Collège de France (1831). He made important additions to our knowledge of nerve-physiology, the veins, and the physiology of food, and wrote numerous works, including the Elements of Physiology (originally a précis, 1816, afterwards extended). He was likewise the founder, and for ten years the editor, of the Journal de la Physiologie Expérimentale, in which are recorded many of the experiments on living animals which gained for him, too deservedly, the character of an unscrupulous vivisector. He died 7th October 1855.