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Charles Robert Richet (
August 25,
1850 –
December 4,
1935) was a
French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects, such as neuro-chemistry,
digestion,
thermoregulation in
homeothermic animals, and
breathing. He was named
professor of
Physiology at the
Collège de France in
1887, and became a member of the
Académie de Médecine in
1898. It was however his work on
anaphylaxis (his term for the sometimes lethal reaction by a sensitised individual to a second, small-dose injection of an
antigen) that won him the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in
1913. This research helped to elucidate problems such as
hay fever,
asthma, and other
allergic reactions to foreign substances and explained some cases of
intoxication and
sudden death not previously understood. In
1914, he became a member of the
Académie des Sciences.
Charles Richet was a man of many interests, and his works include books about
history,
sociology,
philosophy,
psychology, as well as
theatre plays and
poetry. He pioneered
aviation. He also had a deep interest in
extra-sensory perception and
hypnosis. In
1884,
Alexander Aksakov got him interested in the
medium Eusapia Palladino. In
1891, Richet founded the
Annales des sciences psychiques. He kept in touch with some renowned
occultists and
spiritist of his time, such as
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and
Frederic William Henry Myers and
Gabriel Delanne. In
1905 he was named president of the
Society for Psychical Research in the
United Kingdom, and coined the terms
Ectoplasm and
metapsychics. He experimented with
Marthe Béraud,
Elisabette D'Espérance,
William Eglinton,
Stephan Ossowiecki. He became honorary president of the
Institut Métapsychique International in
Paris in
1919, and full-time president in
1929.
Richet's work on this para-scientific subjects, which dominated his late years, include
Traité de Métapsychique ("Treaty of Metapsychics",
1922),
Notre Sixième Sens ("Our Sixth Sense",
1928),
L'Avenir et la Prémonition ("The Future and Premonition",
1931),
La grande espérance ("The Great Hope",
1933).
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