Auguste Chauveau

Throughout his career Chauveau conducted investigations in the fields of microbiology, virology, biochemistry, muscle thermodynamics and cardiology.

With Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904),[1] he performed important studies involving the different phases of the cardiac cycle and intracardiac pressure.

[2][3] In 1867 he made decisive experiments on the transmission of tuberculosis and his work affected public health regulations.

[2] 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.