An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
by Claude Bernard · Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale
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- Written
- 1865
- Language
- French
- Length
- Medium · 230 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendAn Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, translated by Henry Copley GreeneDover Publications, 1957The standard English translation in an inexpensive reprint.
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Bernard, the founder of modern physiology, sets out the method of experimental science as applied to living things. Part one defines observation and experiment and describes the cycle of hypothesis, test and revision, insisting that the experimenter must doubt his own ideas. Part two argues that living bodies obey the same determinism as inanimate matter, so that physiology, pathology and therapeutics can become exact sciences, and introduces the internal environment. Part three illustrates the method with his own experiments on the liver, sugar, curare and carbon monoxide.
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