Bichat

Bichat's La Vie et la Mort, the work of an anatomist of the greatest talent, who died young, also belongs to literature.

In a spirit of true prophecy, Bichat says, "We have arrived at an epoch in which pathological anatomy should start afresh."

Hunter thus stands in thought, as in time, midway between Borelli on the one hand, and Bichat on the other.

All that method could do had been accomplished by Bichat and his followers.