Claude Bernard
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
(also called Le Pauvre Pretre and Le Pere Bernard), was born of a noble family of Dijon in 1588. He studied law and theology. Originally of licentious frivolity, he suddenly became converted, and devoted himself entirely to the service of the sick and poor. He is said to have sucked out ulcers in the hospitals, etc. He died in 1641. He had not been dead four weeks before a hundred miracles had been counted which were said to have been performed by him in Paris, and afterwards they became innumerable. See Gieseler, Ecclesiastical History, v5 1.78; Lichtenbetger, Encyclopedie Des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B. P.)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A distinguished French physiologist, born at St. Julien; he studied at Paris; was Majendie's assistant and successor in the College of France; discovered that the function of the pancreas is the digestion of ingested fats, that of the liver the transformation into sugar of certain elements in the blood, and that there are nervous centres in the body which act independently of the great cerebro-spinal centre (1813-1878).
