About Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term milieu intérieur and the associated concept of homeostasis. Bernard's first major work was on the functions of the pancreas. Bernard also discovered that introducing ether into the stomach or duodenum induced pancreatic secretions. The physiologist William Bayliss credited Bernard's work as influential in the latter's discovery of secretin, the first hormone to be isolated. His discovery that the juices of the pancreas play a significant role in the digestive process won him the prize for experimental physiology from the French Academy of Sciences.
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