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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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