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Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
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About Xavier Bichat

Source: Wikipedia

Marie François Xavier Bichat (; French: [biʃa]; 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.