Claude Bernard Facts
Claude Bernard Facts
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| Bernard was the first to define the term milieu intérieur, which is now known as homeostasis. |
| He received his early education in the Jesuit school of that Saint-Julien, and then proceeded to the college at Lyon, but he soon left to become assistant in a druggist's shop. |
| Despite growing up with a religious education, Bernard was not religious. |
| His free time was devoted to writing a vaudeville comedy, and after this success he was moved to attempt a prose drama in five acts, Arthur de Bretagne. |
| At the age of twenty-one in 1834, , he went to Paris, with his play and an introduction to Saint-Marc Girardin, but the critic dissuaded him from writing as a profession, and convinced him rather to take up the study of medicine. |
| Bernard followed this advice, and in due time he became interne at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. |
| In this way he was brought into contact with a great physiologist named François Magendie, who served as physician at the hospital. In 1841 Bernard became 'preparateur' or lab assistant at the Collège de France. |
| In 1845, Bernard married Marie Françoise "Fanny" Martin for money; the marriage was arranged by a colleague and he used her dowry helped finance his experiments. |
| He was appointed Magendie's deputy-professor at the college in 1847, and in 1855 he succeeded him as full professor. |
| His research field was considered inferior at the time, the laboratory that was assigned to him was simply a "regular cellar". |
| Some time before Bernard had been chosen to be the first occupant of the newly instituted chair of physiology at the Sorbonne, but no laboratory was provided for his use. |
| Louis Napoleon who, after an interview with him in 1864, repaired the deficiency, and built a laboratory at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in the Jardin des Plantes. |
| At the same time, Napoleon III established a professorship for Bernard which he accepted, leaving the Sorbonne. |
| In the same year, 1868, he was also admitted a member of the Académie française and elected to be a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
| When he died on February 10, 1878, he was accorded a public funeral - an honor which had never before been bestowed by France on a man of science. |
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