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# Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed. He was also "the first to propose that tiss

##  Quotes by Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

> [Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-francois-xavier-bichat/open-up-a-few-corpses-you-will-dissipate-at-once-the-darkness-that/)

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

[Anatomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anatomy/)

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> [Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-francois-xavier-bichat/life-consists-in-the-sum-of-the-functions-by-which-death-is-resisted/)

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-francois-xavier-bichat/medicine-is-an-incoherent-assemblage-of-incoherent-ideas-and-is/)

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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