A MATTER OF DOUBT (P Wise) Description and Back Cover text An extraordinary man: unlucky in love, inventive, inquisitive and gifted with words. This is the remarkable story of Claude Bernard, 19th century France's most illustrious medical scientist - told in the form of a novel. A boy from the Beaujolais, he had dreamed only of becoming a writer. Reluctantly he becomes a pharmacy apprentice in Lyon, but irritates everyone by endlessly questioning the science of his practice - inspired by the philosopher Descartes and his concept of scientific doubt. A careless accident - plus his boss's...