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of Armenian extraction. Went to Rome and 

 was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the Col- 

 lege di Sapienza. He was the first to propound 

 the medical doctrine of "solidism," according to 

 which the primary seat of disease is in the solid 

 parts of the organism, and not in the fluid, as 

 was believed up to that time. 



Bastian, Henry Charlton, iv, 180. Born at 

 Cornwall, 1837. English physician and biolo- 

 gist. Professor in University College, Lon- 

 don. Noted nerve specialist. Strong defender 

 of the doctrine of spontaneous generation. 



Becquerel, Alexandra Edmond, viii, 235. Born 

 at Paris, 1820; died at Paris, 1891. French phys- 

 icist, son of Antoine Cesar. Member of Academy 

 of Science, 1863. In 1878 succeeded his father as 

 Professor of Physics at the Conservatoire des 

 Arts et Metiers. Researches in electricity, op- 

 tics and photography. Well known for his work 

 on the Solar spectrum. 



Becquerel, Antoine Henri, v, 98. Born at 

 Paris, 1852; died at Paris, 1908. French physi- 

 cist, Professor of Physics in the ficole Polytech- 

 nique, Paris. His researches have been mainly 

 concerned with optics, chiefly the invisible radia- 

 tion from uranium, known as the Becquerel rays. 



Behring, Emil Adolf, iv, 242. Born at Hans- 

 dorf, Prussia, 1854. German physician who in 

 1895 became director of the Hygienic Institute 

 at Marburg. Most noted for his discovery of 

 diphtheria serum. He made a special study of 

 the question of immunity from disease. 



Barthez, Paul Joseph, iv, 185. Born at Mont- 

 pellier, 1734; died at Paris, 1806. French physi- 

 cian. Became Professor of Medicine Montpel- 



