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Claude Bernard was an eminent French physiologist. He made significant discoveries regarding the role of the pancreas, the liver, and the vasomotor nerves.

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Claude Bernard was an eminent French physiologist. He made significant discoveries regarding the role of the pancreas, the liver, and the vasomotor nerves. He was also one of the first to suggest the use of blind experimentation in the life sciences.

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EARLY LIFE AND CHILDHOOD

  • Claude Bernard was born on July 12, 1813 in Saint-Julian, a small village in France.
  • His parents were Pierre Bernard, a winegrower, and Jeanne Saulnier.
  • Claude Bernard acquired his early education in the Jesuit school in his village.
  • The school did not teach science, but taught students Latin instead.
  • Still, his curiosity helped him gain enough scientific ideas before he went to college.

EDUCATION

  • He then proceeded to college at Lyon but he soon left to become an apprentice in a pharmacy.
  • Bernard was always of an inquisitive mind and found that the college syllabus did not satisfy his curiosity.

EARLY CAREER

  • During his spare time as a pharmacist’s apprentice, Bernard tried his skill at playwriting.
  • However, he was encouraged to work more on his scientific ideas and give up playwriting so, by 1834, he chose to study medicine.
  • He entered the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.
  • He passed the internship exam and became an intern at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris under the French doctor Francois Magendie.

MAIN CAREER

  • In due course, Bernard became a research assistant at the Collège de France in 1841.
  • In 1843 Bernard graduated as a doctor but sadly, he did not pass his teaching exam and so he resigned in 1844.
  • Struggling for money, Bernard married Marie Françoise in 1845 who brought with her a large dowry that helped finance his experiments.
  • The couple had a son and two daughters.
  • Bernard was appointed as Magendie’s deputy-professor at the Collège de France in 1847.
  • He then succeeded Magendie on his death in 1855 as a full professor.
  • It was through these years that Bernard carried out most of his research.
  • For the rest of his life, Claude Bernard remained teaching physiology, changing his workplace once in 1868 as he accepted professorship to the ‘Museum of Natural History of the Jardin des Plantes.’

CONTRIBUTION AND ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Claude Bernard made several discoveries about our body that are still relevant and true today.
  • His first important work was on the functions of the pancreas, concluding that gastric juices played a major role in digestion. This achievement led him to win the prize for experimental physiology from the French Academy of Sciences.
  • His second investigation, and perhaps his most famous, was on the glycogenic function of the liver. In this study, he was led to the conclusion that the liver, in addition to secreting bile, is the seat of an internal secretion by which it prepares sugar at the amount of the elements of the blood passing through it.
  • His third study extensively worked on the regulation of the blood supply that ended in the discovery of the vasomotor system.
  • Bernard originated the term milieu intérieur, which is now known as homeostasis.
  • Throughout his career, Bernard promoted the use of blind experiments in scientific investigation to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
  • Bernard also promoted vivisection, surgery performed on living organisms.
  • Published in 1865, Bernard’s famous work “Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine” was instrumental in bringing about the use of animal testing for physiological research.

CONTRIBUTION AND ACHIEVEMENTS

  • In 1868, Claude Bernard was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • He died in Paris on February 10, 1878, at the age of 64.
  • Claude Bernard became to be the first person in France to be given a public funeral.

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