"On cherche dans des considérations abstraites la définition de la vie ; on la trouvera, je crois, dans cet aperçu général : la vie est l'ensemble des fonctions qui résistent à la mort. Tel est en effet le mode d'existence des corps vivans, que tout ce qui les entoure tend à les détruire."
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One seeks the definition of life in abstract considerations: it will be found, I believe, in this general insight: life is that group of functions which resist death. The mode of existence of living bodies is such in effect, that all which surrounds them tends to destroy them. — Recherches Physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort (1800) — Translation:
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Xavier Bichat
Marie François Xavier Bichat (14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) 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.
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