ANTOINE

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• ANTOINE CLOT

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