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Magendie

[ ma-zhahn-dee ]

noun

  1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1783–1855, French physiologist.


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His experiments and inferences have received the high sanction of M. Magendie.

Magendie found that when given to dogs it produced engorgement, and often inflammation of the lungs.

Magendie was firmly opposed to bloodletting and ordered physicians working under him not to bleed.

His duty was to prepare the specimens and make ready the demonstrations for Magendie's lectures.

Magendie's researches were made more or less at random in the great undiscovered regions of physiology.

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