Auguste Chauveau

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French professor, physiologist and veterinarian who conducted investigations in the fields of microbiology, virology, biochemistry, muscle thermodynamics and cardiology. With Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), he performed important studies involving the different phases of the cardiac cycle and intracardiac pressure. In 1867, he made decisive experiments on the transmission of tuberculosis and his work affected public health regulations. He had a role in the invention of cardiac catheterization. He attracted the ire of a number of anti-vivisection writers for his experiments on animals at the turn of the twentieth century. He was the author of Traité d'anatomie comparée des animaux domestiques, a work that was published in English as The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Also, he collaborated with Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837–1915) in the founding of the Journal de Physiologie et de Pathologie Générale. He died on 4 January 1917, aged 89, in Paris. The bacterial species Clostridium chauvoei is named after him. Link to Wikipedia biography