History of Medicine. The discoveries associated with the name of Claude Bernard, and their results : Wellcome Medal and Prize in the History of Medicine, 1926

Repelled for the most part by the sterile discussions, and fruitless doctrines of his day which led nowhere, it was left to the peculiar genius of Claude Bernard to co-ordinate provisional hypotheses, and premeditated theories with the results obtained by accurate In Zoology, the illustrious Cuvier physiological investigation.Michael Foster tells us that Bernard did something more. "He deposed experiment from its false throne making it the servant and not the master of reasoned speculations."And in this respect he lit a torch of rigorous analysis which played no small part in revealing in their true colours many of the misconceptions and false deductions of the experimental method in his and previous generations, and has been the basis and inspiration of more recent work