François Magendie is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists François Magendie as French physiologist.
François Magendie was born at Bordeaux in 1783. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Paris Medical Faculty.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Collège de France, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and physiology.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
François Magendie died in 1855, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Collège de France, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
- Fields: medicine and physiology
