François Magendie , born with Bordeaux the October 6th 1783 and died in Sannois the October 7th 1855, is a Médecin French. Professor of medicine to the Collège de France, it exerted with the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris.

He made the first experimental demonstration between the motor nerves and the sensory nerves. He specified the discoveries made by Charles Bell and showed the distinction between driving roots and sensitive roots of the rachidian nerves, the first leading the driving impulses activating the muscles, the seconds conveying the sensitive messages of the receivers of the skin and the muscles (law of Beautiful and Magendie).

Its name was given to an anatomical structure of the brain, the hole of Magendie, opening located behind of the cerebellum, only communication between the cavities épendymaires and spaces under-arachnoïdiens.

He is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1821. In 1831, it is named professor with the Collège de France, where it has as preparer Claude Bernard starting from 1841.

Its name was given to several schools of which the school Magendie de Sannois and the college François Magendie of Bordeaux, like at the Institute François Magendie of neurosciences and with a street of Bordeaux.

Publications

• Precise of physiology (1816)
• Lessons on the functions and the diseases of the nervous system (1839) Text in line 1 2

External bond

• bibliographical Biography and reference to the numerical sources in project VLP of the Institute max Planck of history of sciences