[Jean-Baptist Tyrbas de Chamberet (1779-1870). Military doctor, actor and witness of his time].

As military physician Tyrbas de Chamberet was a witness of his time. In 1804 he arrived in Paris and became a medical student. Later he followed the army in Italy, Spain and took part to a mission in Poland where cholera epidemic had broken. As chief of the Hospital Val-de-Grâce he knew people around Larrey and Broussais. In his writings he gave some advices for the organisation of the Military Health Service according to the different governments as well as the characters of his contemporaries.