Claude Bernard.

  • Foster, Michael, Sir.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nique of physiological experimentation. It was an extended and developed repetition of a course which he had given years before, in 1859-60, at the same place. He recognised himself how much of his success as an investigator had been due to his manual dexterity. He further recognised that this was no accidental condition ; on the contrary, he saw that the exact and vigorous analysis of physiological phenomena was in the highest degree dependent on operative skill. Two things, he insisted, were needed for a successful physiological experiment: a clear idea suggesting the experiment, and skill to put the idea to the adequate test. As he said in his Introduction a l'etude de la medecine experimentale (p. 8): To be worthy of the name, the experimentalist must be at the same time theoretical and practical. He ought, on the one hand, to