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His first care was to acquit himself of the obligations he owed his benefactor, by contributing to the support of his widow and her son, and by conducting to a See also:

close the See also:

FOURTH

fourth See also:

VOLUME

volume of Desault's See also:

Journal de Chirurgie, to which he added a See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical memoir of its author. His next See also:

OBJECT

object was to reunite and See also:

DIGEST

digest in one See also:

BODY

body the surgical doctrines which Desault had published in various periodical See also:

WORKS

works. Of these he composed, CEuvres chirurgicales de Desault, au tableau de sa See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine, et de sa pratique clans le traitement See also:

des maladies externes (1798–1799), a See also:

WORK

work in which, although he professes only to set forth the ideas of another, he develops them with the clearness of one who is a See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the subject. In 1797 he began a course of anatomical demonstrations, and his success encouraged him to extend the See also:

plan of his lectures, and boldly to announce a course of operative surgery. In the following See also:

YEAR

year, 1798, he gave in addition a See also:

SEPARATE

separate course of physiology. A dangerous attack of haemoptysis interrupted his labours for a time; but the danger was no sooner past than he plunged into new engagements with the same ardour .as before. He had now See also:

SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)

scope in his physiological lectures for a See also:

fuller exposition of his See also:

ORIGINAL

original views on the See also:

animal See also:

ECONOMY

economy, which excited much See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention in the medical See also:

SCHOOLS

schools at Paris. Sketches of these doctrines were given by him in three papers contained in the See also:

MEMOIRS

Memoirs of the Societe Medicale d'Emulation, which he founded in 1796, and they were afterwards more fully See also:

DEVELOPED

developed in his Traits sur See also:

les membranes ("Soo). His next publication was the Recherches physiologiques sur la See also:

vie et sur is molt (1800), and it was quickly followed by his Anatomie gentrale (1801), the work which contains the fruits of his-most profound and original researches. He began another work, under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Anatomie descriptive (1801–1803), in which the See also:

ORGANS

organs were arranged according to his See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification of their functions, but lived to publish only the first two volumes. It was completed on the same plan by his pupils, M. F.

R. See also:

BUISSON, FERDINAND (1841– )

Buisson (1776–1805) and P. J. Roux (1780–1854). Before Bichat had attained the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of eight-and-twenty he was appointed physician to the Hotel Dieu, a situation which opened an immense See also:

field to his ardent spirit of inquiry. In the investigation of diseases he pursued the same method of observation and experiment which had characterized his researches in physiology. He learned their See also:

HISTORY

history by studying them at the bedside of his patients, and by accurate See also:

DISSECTION (from Lat. dissecare, to cut apart)

dissection of their bodies after death. He engaged in a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

EXAMINATIONS

examinations, with a view to ascertain the changes induced in the various organs by disease, and in less than six months he had opened above six See also:

HUNDRED

hundred bodies. He was anxious also to determine with more precision than had been attempted before, the effects of remedial agents, and instituted with this view a series of See also:

DIRECT

direct experiments which yielded a vast See also:

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store of valuable material. Towards the end of his See also:

LIFE

life he was also engaged on a new classification of diseases. A fall from a See also:

STAIRCASE

staircase at the Hotel Dieu resulted in a See also:

FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever, and, exhausted by his excessive labours and by constantly breathing the tainted See also:

air of the dissecting-See also:

ROOM

room, he died on the 22nd of See also:

JULY

July 1802. His bust, together with that of Desault, was placed in the Hotel Dieu by See also:

order of See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon.

End of Article: BICHAT, MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER (1771–1802)

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