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CLOT, ANTOINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 557 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLOT, See also:ANTOINE See also:BARTH$LEMY (1793-1868), See also:French physician, known as CLOT See also:BEY, was See also:born at See also:Grenoble on the 7th of See also:November 1793, and graduated in See also:medicine and See also:surgery at See also:Montpellier. After practising for a See also:time at See also:Marseilles he was made See also:chief surgeon to Mehemet See also:Ali, See also:viceroy of See also:Egypt. At Abuzabel, near See also:Cairo, he founded a See also:hospital and See also:schools for all branches of medical instruction, as well as for the study of the French See also:language; and, notwithstanding the most serious religious difficulties,- instituted the study of See also:anatomy by means of See also:dissection. In 1832 Mehemet Ali gave him the dignity of bey without requiring him to abjure his See also:religion; and in 1836 he received the See also:rank of See also:general,. and was appointed See also:head of the medical See also:administration of the See also:country. In 1849 he returned to Marseilles, though he revisited Egypt in 1856. He died at Marseilles on the 28th of See also:August 1868. His publications included: Relation See also:des epidemies de See also:cholera qui ont regne d l'Heggiaz, d See also:Suez, et en Egypte (1832) De to Peste observee en Egypte (1840) Apereu general sur l'Egypte (184o); Coup d'ceil sur la peste et See also:les quarantaines (1851); De l'ophthalmie (1864).

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