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devotion to their studies? Could I restore to their minds the 
courage and the good determination which they had lost ? 
“ My anxiety, my embarrassment may be readily conceived. 
I knocked at every gate; I invoked the regulations of his High¬ 
ness Ibrahim Pacha ; I addressed letter after letter to the coun¬ 
cil of war, careless of the personal consequences of my impor¬ 
tunity. My duty and the interests of the school urged me on, 
and I could not hesitate. 
“ ‘ Wait/ some said to me, ‘ until the end of the year, and 
that which has been now refused to your pupils will be granted / 
but what guarantee could I have for this ? I had been defeated, 
and the business must be brought to a close in one way or another. 
This state of perplexity could-not last long : either animal medi¬ 
cine must return to its native country, France, or the institution 
patronized by the viceroy must take rank among establishments 
of the first acknowledged utility. Everywhere repulsed, and 
without any hope for the present, at least, one person alone 
could relieve the anguish which I endured, and that was his 
Highness : but other affairs of the greatest importance then ab¬ 
sorbed all his attention; and I was compelled for the present to 
defer, and even to renounce, the idea of appealing to him. 
Abandoned to myself, I relied on my own resources. 
“ The council of war, thought I, cannot, after all, wish the ruin 
of the school; they will ultimately revoke their present decree, so 
injurious to the progress of our art. I assembled the pupils. I 
exhorted them to continue to pursue the studies they had so 
praiseworthily commenced. 6 Justice will be rendered to you/ 
said I to them; * do not deceive yourselves about this : the very 
acts which have been so industriously resorted to, in order to in¬ 
jure you, prove the importance of your profession. If you now 
abandon your studies, your enemies will laugh ; they will triumph 
through your fault. Be superior to these little calamities: in¬ 
stead of despairing, redouble your zeal and your activity—perse¬ 
vere, and you will conquer/ 
“This short harangue raised the drooping spirits of the pupils; 
they submitted to that which I required, and I hastened to turn 
their present praiseworthy feeling to good account: but the 
neighbourhood of the two schools was a subject of annoyance. 
The pupils of human medicine, with their habits covered with 
gold lace, presented themselves before ours, who, although their 
equals in knowledge, had not been able to obtain similar badges 
of distinction. Then came a trying scene ;—the pupils revolted 
against their masters—against me ; and some of them, armed 
with bludgeons and weapons of iron, conspired to waylay and to 
murder me. •. ’ " ' ’ ‘ < K b -op 
“ I presented myself before them. I seized and chastized on 
