Studied medicine at the University of Paris under Magendie;1835 M.D., University of Paris, with a dissertation entitled Exhalation sanguine des méninges; 1842 read a series of lectures about the pulmonary emphysema at the University of Paris; 1845 member Académie de Médecine; 1859 professor of physiology, University of Paris (in succession of P.H.M. Bérard).
