Claude Bernard / by M. Foster.

  • Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard / by M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this respect he presented a strong contrast to his master Magendie, whose way was somewhat that of a prospector, prodding and digging in all directions, in the hope that the precious ore of a new truth might at times be turned up. Bernard, on the contrary, always worked under the guidance of some leading idea. He, said he, one day, who does not know what he is looking for, will not lay hold of what he has found when he gets it. And his fertile mind was ever ready to supply him with a clear idea by which to work. He has himself in his ''Introduction a Fetude de la Medecine Experimental, given us an admirable de- scription of the genesis and growth of a successful experimental inquiry. To the observer brooding over the phenomena presenting themselves to him there comes the thought that if a certain state of things were supposed to exist, or if a certain se-