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Claude Bernard did not only study metabolism. His research into neurology fills two volumes. He also studied the effects of curare and carbon monoxide, even the sensibility of plants. All his scientific work is discussed in detail in the outstanding biography by Mirko D. Grmek [9]. Gremek reports an anecdote about the question “what remains of the ideas of a researcher?” In a conversation between Pasteur and Claude Bernard, Pasteur said that he had the impression that his research had not been well received by the medical community. Claude Bernard replied: “It is quite the opposite. The physicians have already learned a lot from your research on infections. A cannula was introduced into my bladder by two colleagues, an older one and a younger one. Both of them washed their hands – the younger one before and the older one after the operation.”