Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (born 1771)

Xavier Bichat

French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)

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…