A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . igations,he met only with failurein his efforts to secure,by competitive examina-tion, the of as-sistant professor in theMedical Facidty of Paris;for, at that period, aflowery style of lectur-ing, without much regardto the real value of thesubject matter, counted|JN for everything. Greatly\ discouraged and lackingsufficient funds for con-tinuing his scientific re-searches, Bernard hadjust about made up hismind to settle down insome French village as an or
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . igations,he met only with failurein his efforts to secure,by competitive examina-tion, the of as-sistant professor in theMedical Facidty of Paris;for, at that period, aflowery style of lectur-ing, without much regardto the real value of thesubject matter, counted|JN for everything. Greatly\ discouraged and lackingsufficient funds for con-tinuing his scientific re-searches, Bernard hadjust about made up hismind to settle down insome French village as an ordinary practitioner,when he had the good fortune to contract a mar-riage with a wealthy heiress. This event made itpossible for him to resume his scientific work with amind free from financial worries. Magendie, who wasat this time Professor of Physiology in the College ofFrance, made him one of his assistants, and thusopened the way for him to become at an early dayone of the most celebrated vivisectionist investigatorsin European countries outside France; for, in thelatter country, owing to petty intrigues, he continued 44. Fig. 639.—Claude for a long time to be almost unknown. In 1853 he waselected Professor of General Physiology in the Sor-bonne; and, upon the death of Magendie, he his successor in the College of France. Hisdeath occurred on Feb. 10, 1878. Claude Bernard ranks as one of the most prominentphysiologists of modern times. Personally he was aman of the most genial manners. Of his publishedwritings the following are the most widely known:Lemons sur la physiologie et la pathologic du sys-tcme nerveux, Paris, lS5S;Lerons sur la physiologieexperimentale appUquee a la medecine, Paris, 1856;Sur les proprietes des tissus vivants, Paris, 1866;Sur la chaleur animale, Paris, 1876; and surles phenomenes de la vie, Paris, 1878. The followingmay be ranked as the most important of the dis-coveries made by Claude Bernard: the fact that thecervic
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