That battlefield on which he fell is one which demands courage and claims many victims.

He has advanced the science of medicine.

No one at his age has done so much so well." (11) E.Boinet: Les doctrines medicules, leur evolution, Paris, 1907, pp.

85-86.
It was a pupil of Corvisart, Rene Theophile Laennec, who laid the foundation of modern clinical medicine.

The story of his life is well known.