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VETERINARY SCHOOL 
Hamont began to conceive bright and well-founded hopes of the 
future. He immediately employed himself in organizing the mode 
of instruction ; nay, he commenced it before the buildings were 
completed; and he soon had to boast of a sufficient number of pupils. 
I pass over in silence the interested and contemptible opposition 
which a few persons raised against him ; for I rejoice to say, that 
the talent and good intention of M. Ilamont were soon rightly ap¬ 
preciated, and they who had been most adverse, ranged them¬ 
selves on his side, and became his firmest friends. 
It was easy to foresee that the veterinary institution, brought 
into the very neighbourhood of the capital, would soon excite 
more particular attention from the government, and that the 
school of human medicine would lend it the most efficacious aid. 
In effect, the viceroy did not delay to encourage, and that by his 
presence, an infant school, of the beneficial influence of which 
on the country submitted to his government he augured so well. 
The visit of Mehemed Ali was followed by those of the ministers 
and all the great personages of Alexandria, and particularly of 
Ibrahim Pacha. That general afforded an especial patronage 
to the new school; he caused it to be decreed, that the veteri¬ 
nary surgeons of the cavalry should there receive their education ; 
and M. Hamont was charged to organize this new branch of 
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service on the plan of that of France. 
The hopes that had been formed with regard to the school of 
human medicine were more than realized. M. Clot associated 
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himself with his fellow countryman, M. Hamont, in every kind of 
labour; he assisted him by his valuable counsel, and he placed at 
his disposal every thing that could be of use to him in the course 
of his veterinary instructions. M. Pharaon, and the Sheik 
Moustapha, who were attached to the school of human medicine 
in the quality of interpreters and translators and professors of 
foreign languages, consented to discharge the same duties in the 
veterinary school. They translated for the use of the pupils, 
Girard’s Veterinary Anatomy, in 2 vol. 8vo ; Bourgelat on the 
Knowledge of the Exterior of the Horse; and also Girard on 
Inguinal Hernia. It is probable that, since the last communica¬ 
tion from the school, they have translated other works, and have 
