Career
In 1836 he obtained his doctorate with the thesis De l’emploi des évacuants, et cetera From 1840 he was an assigned as a physician to the "Bureau central", earning his agrégation several years later (1844). He was a leading advocate of pathological physiology.
Treatises involving his studies of the heart and lungs were initially published in the "Archives générales de médecine" (1834 to 1845), and compiled in his "Traité expérimental et clinique d"auscultation appliqué à l"étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur" (1856).