Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock London with St Giles in

London with St Giles in the Fields visible in the background

(1852-1931)

Allan Martin

contained in his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments

Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock London with St Giles inClaude 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