Xavier Bichat
Xavier Bichat defined life as "Those set of functions which resist death"
He thought that life was separable into two parts: the organic life and the animal life. The organic life was the life of the heart, intestines, and other organs.
Xavier Bichat theorized that this life was regulated through the ganglionic nervous system, a collection of small independent "brains" in the chest cavity.
In contrast, the animal life involved harmonious, symmetrical organs such as the eyes, ears, and limbs. It included habit and memory and was ruled by the wit and the intellect.
This was the function of the brain itself, although it could not exist without the heart, the center of the organic life.
This is the main Door of the "College Xavier Bichat in Nantua.
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