Claude Bernard and the Experimental Method by Houssay, Bernardo Alberto

“…He has codified experimental medicine, he has given autonomy and vigorous impulse to physiology, and in 20 years he has found more dominating facts, not only than the French physiologists, who in scarce number worked at his side, but than the totality of the physiologists of the whole world, as Paul Bert said. Through space and time he has exerted a profound influence on all of them, and for my part I consider him as one of my masters because of the powerful stimulus that my vocation received when I came to know his works and his doctrines, which explains why I have for him a devout and profound admiration.…”
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