In 1808 he obtained his medical doctorate in Paris with the thesis "Dissertation sur une maladie de la peau désignée sous le nom de prurigo".
Following graduation he worked as a military physician in Italy and then in Spain.
[1] Under the Bourbon Restoration he became a professor of hygiene and physiology at the military hospital of instruction in Lille and in around 1840 was appointed professor and chief physician at Val-de-Grâce.
[2] With Jean Louis Marie Poiret and François-Pierre Chaumeton, he was co-author of "Flore médicale" (medicinal plants).
[4] Other significant written efforts by Tyrbas de Chamberet include: