Antoine Barthelemy Clot was a French

France

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 physician

Physician

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 known as Clot Bey while practicing in Egypt

Egypt

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.

He was born at Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

, and graduated in medicine and surgery at Montpellier

Montpellier

-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

. After practising for a time at Marseilles he was made chief surgeon to Mehemet Ali, viceroy of Egypt. At Abu Zabal

Abu Zabal

- 1970 bombing incident :In early 1970, the Israeli air force accidentally bombed an industrial plant in Abu Zabal, killing 80 workers....

, near Cairo

Cairo

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 then Kasr Alaini, he founded a hospital and schools for all branches of medical instruction, as well as for the study of the French language

French language

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; and, notwithstanding the most serious religious difficulties, instituted the study of anatomy

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 (see his photo teaching) by means of dissection

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. In 1832 Mehemet Ali gave him the dignity of bey

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 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 in 1868, aged 74. The thick-billed lark

Thick-billed Lark

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, was named in Clot's honor by naturalist

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 Charles Lucien Bonaparte

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 (1803–1857).

His publications included:

• (1832)
• (1840)
• (1840)
• (1851)
• (1864)

Legacy

• A street in his hometown of Grenoble
  Grenoble
  Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
  
   was named after him.
• A Street in down town Cairo
  Cairo
  Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
  
   was named after him.
• Many statues of him are present at Kasr Alaini hospital and in its museum.