Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock Athletes at the US Olympic

Athletes at the US Olympic Trials

with scenic attractions

A satire on the Gordon Riots of 1780

Allan Martin

London with St Giles in the Fields visible in the background

Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock Athletes at the US OlympicClaude 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