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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Claude Bernard, Hans Krebs, Matthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and Seymour Benzer are Holmes' subjects. From the Greek denoting either "celle qui est universellement divine" or "la propriete des Dieux" (CX), this appellation simultaneously evokes the most splendid of the mythological Graces and Tagaut's real-life beloved, the Benedictine nun (literally a "property" of God), Claude Bernard. Its spirit and intent are admirably captured in the following passage from Claude Bernard, the great French physiologist: |
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Claude Bernard - French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)