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contained in his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments

8th August 1965

Japanese costume

Mr Upcott's House

Above them are portraits of Charles II and James

Claude Bernard, French physiologist Kock contained in his reflections onClaude 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