Napoleon’s Doctor Corvisart

What does it take for a doctor's name to be given to a street, high school and metro station in Paris? You had to develop new theories in pathological and cardiovascular medicine, and be the most brillant doctor of your time at a time when the man who ruled France was Napoleon.

The Emperor was known to tease his doctor by greeting him with a: "There you are, you great charlatan!"... As per the legend goes, Napoleon would have said: "I don't believe in medicine but I believe in Corvisart"...

Born on 15 February 1755, he was already 60 years old when Napoleon was exiled on Saint-Helena. Corvisart's age did not allow him to follow the Emperor there. Who knows if Napoleon would have suffered the same ailments had Corvisart joined him in captivity..?