Physiological Researches on Life and Death

📓 Bichat (1771-1802) was a French anatomist and pathologist known as the father of histology who, without a microscope, distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed. First published in the original French in 1801 as Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort, it is reprinted here from an English translation published in America in 1827.