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    François Magendie (6 October 1783 – 7 October 1855) was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing...
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    One polarizing figure in the anti-vivisection movement was François Magendie. Magendie was a physiologist at the Académie Royale de Médecine in France...
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    anatomical scientist Sir Charles Bell and the French physiologist François Magendie, later confirmed by the German physiologist Johannes Peter Müller...
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    cerebellar vermis. The foramen of Magendie is named for François Magendie, who first described it. The term "foramen of Magendie" is commonly used, and this...
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  • anaphylaxis has been known since ancient times. French physician François Magendie had described how rabbits were killed by repeated injections of egg...
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    Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Colin White traces the origins to François Magendie (1783–1855). According to White, while arguing against using blood-letting...
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    emetic properties. Mechanism of action of emetine was studied by François Magendie during the nineteenth century.[citation needed] Early use of emetine...
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    An earlier use of the term was in 1843 by the French physiologist François Magendie, that refers to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day"...
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    energy foods was first scientifically tested by French physiologist François Magendie, who experimented on dogs and described the process in his book Précis...
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    the Bell–Magendie law, which compared functional differences between dorsal and ventral roots of the spinal cord. In 1824, François Magendie described...
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    this way he was brought into contact with the great physiologist, François Magendie, who served as physician at the hospital. Bernard became 'preparateur'...
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    could lead to hydrocephalus. François Magendie studied the properties of CSF by vivisection. He discovered the foramen Magendie, the opening in the roof of...
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  • reciprocal action of muscles. Only in the 19th century, in the work of François Magendie and Charles Bell, would the understanding of spinal function surpass...
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    Luschka Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie McBurney's point – Charles McBurney Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello...
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    a native of Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a student of François Magendie (1783–1855), and a pioneer in the field of experimental physiology...
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  • physiology and pharmacology began to be developed by scientists such as François Magendie and his student Claude Bernard. From the late 18th century to the...
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    Comedy (Guillaume Dupuytren, Jean Baptiste Bouillaud, François Joseph Victor Broussais, François Magendie)". JAMA. 204 (1): 7–10. doi:10.1001/jama.204.1.7...
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    day Alessandro Volta died. His brain was removed by his physician, François Magendie, and kept for many years, eventually being displayed in a roving anatomical...
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    notables while declining offers of introduction by Dupin, and heard François Magendie read a paper on the "fifth pair of nerves". In May 1825, Carlyle moved...
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  • Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud François Magendie, French physiologist – foramen of Magendie. Pierre Magnol, French botanist – magnolia. Heinrich...
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    politician Lucenzo (born 1983), singer Jean-Jacques Magendie (1766–1835), officer François Magendie (1783–1855), physiologist Bruno Marie-Rose (born 1965)...
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  • Clifford Ladd Prosser John James Rickard Macleod Paul D. MacLean François Magendie Jesse Francis McClendon Donal T. Manahan Peter Medawar Glenn Allan...
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    with therapeutic "électropuncture" (a technique recently invented by François Magendie and Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière by which electric shock was administered...
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  • Benjamin Collins Brodie, English physiologist (died 1862) October 6 – François Magendie, French physiologist (died 1855) October 22 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque...
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    Paris where he followed the teachings of François Magendie, later professor at the College de France, François Achille Longet and Pierre Flourens. In this...
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  • discoveries. Among its leaders were Charles Bell (1774–1843) and François Magendie (1783–1855) who independently discovered the distinction between sensory...
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    medicine at Frederiks Hospital, graduating in 1822. He was a student of François Magendie in Paris from 1824-1825, composing a thesis on cranial nerves, after...
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     United States: Bedford High School (New Hampshire)  France: Lycée François Magendie  Japan: Hyogo Itami High School 台中州立台中第二中学校校歌 〈黒潮の歌〉 作者不明 1 黒潮南に さすところ  椰子の葉茂る 南海に...
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  • contraction, and the competing work of Charles Bell (1774–1842) and François Magendie (1783–1855) led to the view that the ventral horns of the spinal cord...
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  • of veratrine based on earlier experiments of French physiologist François Magendie. As a corresponding member of the Society of Sciences, Arts and Letters...
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