Claude Bernard

Claude Bernanrd (1813-1878) was a distinguished French physiologist, born at St. Julien, studied at Paris, was Majendie's assistant and successor in the College of France, known for discovering the function of the pancreas is the digestion , the method of regulation of body temperature, and the function of nerves that supply the internal organs.

He showed the role of pancreas in digestion of ingested fats, and that of the liver in the transformation into sugar of certain elements in the blood, and that there are nervous centres in the body which act independently of the great cerebro-spinal centre.