Magendie
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One of the first hints that food could contain such specific components with such specific influence over well-being came in 1816, when experimental physiologist François Magendie fed dogs a diet that was high in sugar and free of animals and plants.
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Many years ago Magendie, and after him Dieffenbach, on examining the arteries of persons in the advanced stage of cholera, found those vessels empty of blood.
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Many other experiments, similar to those which have just been mentioned, were made in the mean while by Magendie, Stich, Billroth and Hufschmidt, O. Weber, Duprey, Learet, Urfrey, Saltzman, Fischer, Frese, Muller, and others.
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In general the temperature of the body falls several degrees, although Currie observed the contrary in a patient who died of inanition in consequence of a stricture of the œsophagus; the respiration becomes fetid, the secretion of the kidneys acrid and burning, and according to Magendie and Collard bloody, and the stomach is found contracted after death.
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Magendie attributes the nutritious principle to the greater or lesser proportion of nitrogen or azote.
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