Marie François Xavier Bichat
Physician, Academic
1771 – 1802
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Who was Marie François Xavier Bichat?
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and physiologist who is best remembered as the father of modern histology and descriptive anatomy. Despite working without a microscope, he was the first to introduce the notion of tissues as distinct entities, and maintained that diseases attacked tissues rather than whole organs or the entire body, causing a revolution in anatomical pathology.
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