François Magendie (1783–1855)

French anatomist and physiologist. Brought up in an ardent republican family according to the principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Anatomy demonstrator, Faculty of Medicine in Paris, 1811–13. Taught a private course on physiology from 1813, and practised medicine. Founded a journal devoted to experimental physiology in 1821. His public demonstrations of vivisection experiments on dogs during a trip to England in 1824 provoked an antivivisection campaign. Professor of medicine at the Collège de France, 1831–47.