Claim: British pathologist Jean Baptiste Barth was médecin des hôpitaux for 30 years and president of the Académie de Médecine.
Evidence: Jean Baptiste Philippe Barth (September 24, 1806 – November 20, 1877) was a French pathologist who was a native of Sarreguemines. In 1840 he was appointed médecin des hôpitaux, and practiced medicine in Parisian hospitals for the next thirty years. In 1871 he was elected vice president of the Académie de Médecine, and soon afterwards became its president.