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See also:JUSTIN See also:CLINCHANT (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 See also: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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