Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock (1852-1931)

(1852-1931)

contained in his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments

London with St Giles in the Fields visible in the background

Athletes at the US Olympic Trials

Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock (1852-1931)Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 1876. Bernard (1813 1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen, and determined that most of the process of digestion occurs in the small intestine, rather that the stomach. He showed that haemoglobin carries oxygen in red blood cells, and demonstated how carbon monoxide poisoning disrupted this process. When Bernard died in 1878, the French government organised his funeral, making him the first French