Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock Mr Upcott's House

Mr Upcott's House

Denis Payton

8th August 1965

contained in his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments

London with St Giles in the Fields visible in the background

Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock Mr Upcott's HouseClaude 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