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Alexandria in 1825. This proposition, which accorded with the 
previous views of the government, could not iail of being favour¬ 
ably received : the two veterinarians were authorised to establish 
immediately in Rosetta the school they had recommended, and 
to superintend the instruction of that school. 
Permit me, gentlemen, to remark, the coincidence which ex¬ 
isted between the establishment of schools m Fiance, and now 
in Egypt, for instruction in veterinary medicine. In the one 
country and the other the epizootics gave biith to the vetennary 
institutions. The epidemics of the last century not only led to the 
establishment of schools of this kind, the first of which was 
opened in Lyons in 1760, but also the formation of the Royal 
Society of Medicine in 1776. 
The want of convenient buildings; the incalculable difficulty 
resulting from the difference of language; the deficiency of in¬ 
terpreters ; and the different manner of setting to woik about 
every thing, paralysed the exertions of our young countrymen, 
and the new school did not open auspiciously. An unfortunate 
circumstance increased every difficulty Pretot died at Smyrna, 
and Hamont remained alone. Dispirited by such a complication 
of untoward events, he thought of abandoning all, and returning 
to France; but mature and better reflection determined him still 
to labour in the important work which he had undertaken, and 
to adopt other and more zealous efforts to accomplish the purpose 
to which he had devoted himself. His school, banished as it 
were in Rosetta, was in a false position, and wanted the elements 
essential to its prosperity. He resolved to petition that it might 
be translated to Abou-Zabel, as was the school of human medi¬ 
cine under the direction of Clot-Bey. Every thing seemed to 
have been already planned to ensure the success of this project. 
Clot-Bey had long wished that the veterinary school should be 
removed from Rosetta to Abou-Zabel, and M. Pariset had 
already petitioned Mehemed Ali on this point. The way being 
thus prepared, no other obstacle was opposed to the removal of 
the school, and its translation to Abou-Zabel was speedily 
effected. 
A new sera seemed now to dawn on the infant art, and M. 
