Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
Baron Jean -Nicolas Corvisart of Maret (* February 15, 1755 in Dricourt, Ardennes department, † September 18, 1821 in Courbevoie, Hauts -de -Seine département ) was a French physician and among other things, personal physician to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Biography
His father would have liked it if the young Corvisart would have taken the study of jurisprudence, but this preference for a crucial meeting with the famous physician Antoine Petit (1722-1794; seul le docteur de Paris qui thing opérer et accoucher ) medicine. Since his father it highlights the financial support, he will care assistance at Hôpital Dieu in Paris. He shows so much enthusiasm that the parents decide to allow him to study medicine.
He studied with the famous names of the time (Pierre -Joseph Desault, Vicq d' Azyr, Antoine Petit, Desbois de Rochefort ). On November 14, 1782 awarded the title of docteur - régent is awarded. Since he refuses to wear the wig, a job he is denied as a doctor in the Hôpital des Paroisses and he takes a job in a hospital arms of Saint -Sulpice community to.
In 1788, he is the successor of the Debois de Rochefort as the head physician of the Hospice de la Charité, where he introduces some far-reaching reforms and an iron Regiment leads.
Through the French Revolution (1792 ) the teaching is canceled in medicine and it is an increase of charlatans. End of 1794 increasingly controlled studies are then again established. 1795, the new Ecole de Santé is founded in Paris and Corvisart is transferred to the chair of internal medicine. Within a short time the School of Paris is one of the most important in Europe.
His main interest is cardiology, he refined the appropriate diagnosis, such as cardiac auscultation. In his teaching, he places great emphasis on a systematic and careful, all the senses onset investigation.
In the early years of the 19th century, he gains the trust of Napoléon and Joséphine in 1804 and is his personal physician. Napoleon is fascinated by his quiet nature and of its safe diagnostics and should have done the following quote: "I do not believe in medicine, but I believe in Corvisart ". He also appointed him a Knight of the only two years before called into life Legion of Honour (1804 ). Corvisart accompanied Napoleon to Italy in 1805 and 1809 in Austria. It also deals with Joséphine, which requires more and more to the prescribed him pills. He gives her why a placebo: White bread balls in silver paper wrapped.
One of his most important works is the work Essai sur les maladies et les lesions organiques du coeur et des gros Vaisseaux ( about the diseases and organic lesions of the heart and great vessels ), which appeared in 1806. In 1808 he translated Leopold Auenbrugger book on percussion and helps this work so great fame.
He died on September 18, 1821 in Courbevoie near Paris after several brain strokes, a few months after the death of Napoleon on Saint Helena.
- Consulate and Empire
- Physician (18th century)
- Physician (19th century)
- Member of the Legion of Honour ( Knight )
- Frenchman
- Born in 1755
- Died in 1821
- Man