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François Magendie (www.whonamedit.com) (3226 words) |
 | Magendie was the son of the surgeon Antoine Magendie and Marie Nicole de Perey. |
| Magendie concluded that the absorption of liquids and semiliquids is not a vital and physically inexplicable function of the lymphatics but a simple physico-chemical phenomenon of the imbition of tissues and of passage through vascular walls. |
| Magendie showed that the epiglottis is not necessary for swallowing, which disproved the accepted doctrine that the epiglottis was necessary to cover the glottis to prevent food from entering the trachea. |
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