1783–1855 French medical figure of the early nineteenth century who was one of the founders of experimental physiology and pharmacology.
Keywords: physiology; pharmacology; neurology; Bichat; Bernard; experimentalism
Magendie, François
WR Albury, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002511
| Further Reading | |
| book Magendie F (1816–1817) Précis élémentaire de physiologie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis. | |
| book Magendie F (1821) Formulaire pour l'emploi et la préparation de plusieurs nouveaux médicaments, tel que la noix vomique, la morphine, l'acide prussique, la strychnine, la vératrine, les alcalis des quinquinas, l'iodide, etc. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis. | |
| book Magendie F (1842) Phénomènes physiques de la vie: Leçons professées au Collège de France. Paris: Baillière. | |
| Albury WR (1977) Experiment and explanation in the physiology of Bichat and Magendie. Studies in History of Biology 1: 47–131. | |
| book Cranefield PF (1974) The Way In and the Way Out: François Magendie, Charles Bell and the Roots of the Spinal Nerves. New York: Futura Publications. | |
| book Deloyers L (1970) François Magendie, 1783–1855: Précurseur de le médecine expérimentale. Brussels: Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles. | |
| book Grmek MD (1970–1980) "Magendie, François". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 9, pp. 6–11. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Lesch J (1984) Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology, 1790–1855. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Olmsted JMD (1981) François Magendie: Pioneer in Experimental Physiology and Scientific Medicine in XIX Century France. [reprint of 1945 edition] New York: Arno Press. | |
