Bichât, Marie François Xavier, an eminent French anatomist and physiologist; physician to the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris; one of the first to resolve the structure of the human body into, as “Sartor” has it, “cellular, vascular, and muscular tissues;” his great work “Anatomie Générale appliquée à la Physiologie et à la Medecine”; died at 31 (1771‒1802).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bicêtre * Bickerstaff, Isaac