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CLINCHANT, JUSTIN (1820-1881)

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CLINCHANT, See also:JUSTIN (1820-1881) , See also:French soldier, entered the See also:army from St Cyr in 1841. From 1847 to 1852 he was employed in the Algerian See also:campaigns, and in 1854 and 1855 in the See also:Crimea. At the See also:assault on the Malakoff (See also:Sept. 8th, 1855) he greatly distinguished himself at the See also:head of a See also:battalion.. During the 1859 See also:campaign he won promotion to the See also:rank of lieut.-See also:colonel, and as a colonel he served in the Mexican See also:War. He was made See also:general of See also:brigade in 1866, and led a brigade of the Army of the See also:Rhine in 1870. His troops were amongst those shut up in See also:Metz, and he passed into captivity, but soon escaped. The See also:government of See also:national See also:defence made him general of See also:division and put him at the head of the loth See also:corps of the Army of the See also:East. He was under See also:Bourbaki during the campaign of the See also:Jura, and when Bourbaki attempted to commit See also:suicide he succeeded to the command (See also:Jan. 23rd, 1871), only to be driven with 84,000 men over the Swiss frontier at See also:Pontarlier. In 1871 Clinchant commanded the 5th corps operating against the See also:Commune. He was military See also:governor of See also:Paris when he died in 1881.

CLINIC: CLINICAL (Gr. alai?, a See also:

bed), an See also:adjective strictly connoting association with the bedside, and so used in ecclesiology of See also:baptism of the sick or dying, but more particularly in See also:medicine to characterize its aspect as associated with practice on the living patient. Thus clinical experience is opposed to what is learnt from laboratory See also:research or theoretical considerations. The substantive " clinic " is technically employed for a medical school or class where instruction is given in See also:practical See also:work as illustrated by the examination and treatment of actual cases of disease.

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