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amply suffice promiscuously for all. The election of the Physician 

 and other officials for this institution, is yearly made by the Consular 

 body and other contributors by the majority of votes. Extreme is the 

 neatness and regularity of attendance introduced into this Hospital, 

 and we are gratified in being enabled to bestow our well-merited 

 meed of praise on the directors of it, while we, at the same time, 

 submit our hope, that in the election of the Physician, they may for 

 the future value more than they have heretofore done, the intrinsic 

 merits of the individual, and pay no regard to a spirit of vain nation- 

 ality, which so often proves fatal to its unfortunate inmates.* 



Regarding those infected with the plague, we shall have occasion 

 to allude to them when speaking of the Lazarettos, in the important 

 matter of sanitarial treatment. 



The rare advantage of the Abou-Zabel Hospital induced Dr. Clot, 

 Physician- General, to propose to the Egyptian government the institu- 

 tion of a Medical School for the formation of Native alumni, capable in 

 time of succeeding the European doctors, on whom depended the me- 

 dical management and attendance both of that head Hospital and 

 of the other Infirmaries, as well as of the army. The body of Euro- 

 pean physicians then practising in Egypt, fortunately presented the 

 number of Professors requisite to occupy the various chairs of the 

 intended institute, and Dr. Clot wisely opined that so favourable an 

 opportunity should be availed of to attain with facility and economy 

 the object he had in view. The necessity of such an establishment 

 was too evident for the Egyptian government not to second the pro- 

 posal of the French Physician-General ; but there were mighty and 

 various obstacles yet to be surmounted. 



* It would not be here inopportune to make mention of a small Greek Hospital, 

 if it were completed, or worthy of observation. Hence we omit enumerating it among 

 the Hospitals of Alexandria. Nevertheless we cannot refrain from commending the 

 noble efforts of the Chev. Fossizza towards its erection and support, in which he has 

 jiot yet relaxed. 



Apropos of the above mentioned individual, we feel pleasure in giving a brief 

 account of his merits and influence in Egypt. 



The Chev. Fossizza, a wealthy Greek merchant of Mezzovo in Albania (Epirus), 

 and now Consul-General of his Majesty King Otho, is one of the most distinguished 

 personages who are about the illustrious Reformer, Mehemet Aly, on account of the 

 high degree of confidence he enjoys, in as much as being wholly devoted to his wishes, 

 he succeeded so well both in the administration of the state, and in the most difficult 

 political circumstances of the Government, in comforting him, by seconding all his 

 cogitations and devices, as well as by assisting him with his vast commercial knowledge 

 in his traffic computations, and so by reviving in an extraordinary manner the home 

 as well as the foreign trade ; moreover, he is still more commendable on this account, 

 because he uses his interest with the Pacha to forward the distribution of his princely 

 munificence among the meritorious. Hence the Chev. Fossizza is generally esteemed 

 by the Europeans as well as the foreign Consuls in Egypt. 



