Jean Boniface Textoris was a military surgeon, chief doctor of the French Navy, born on 24 February 1773 in Toulon and died on 3 September 1828 in Néoules in the Var.
[3] Attached to the health service of the bagne of Toulon, he caught typhus imported by a chaîne (chain) of convicts who arrived at that time.
The campaign of this frigate corresponded to the naval stations of the navy to ensure the French presence in the eastern Mediterranean and the security of its trade in the Levant.
[5] During this trip, he took notes that would later form the basis of the dissertation he will read on the antiquities of the island of Thasos, at the Academy of Toulon, of which he will be one of the founders and the first secretary.
[4] Promoted to the rank of first class surgeon on 2 July 1801, he was at the same time ordered to go to Cadiz to be attached to the naval division of Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley.
The officers of the health service, under the orders of Textoris, were distributed as follows:[7] When the French flagship surrendered to the enemy with Admiral Villeneuve on board, the ship was very heavily damaged, almost dismasted, and covered with corpses and wounded.
In the early morning, while in sight of the port, she ran aground in the swell, and despite attempts to lighten and free her, the ship began to sink.
Textoris was to be found wherever there was good to be done and difficulties to be overcome, or to put it in more detail, he devoted all his time to disputing the death of the unfortunate mutilated by carrying out, as soon as possible, the major operations, with the means at hand, and to dispensing, to all the wounded, moral consolation and the most diligent care.”[7][nb 3] On 28 October 1805 Textoris embarked on the ship Héros as chief doctor of the Navy then passed with the same title on the hospital transport Achille[nb 4] on 21 April 1806[3] chartered to Cadiz to take to Toulon the wounded of Admiral François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros' naval army.
[6] Textoris, wanting to reassure them, read an "Overview on yellow fever" at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society of Marseille on 19 October 1821.