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2l8 THE MIDDLE AGES.
form the foundation for teaching, and the order of study
and examination in them was explained. Every student
had to attend medical lectures for at least five years and to
practise medicine for eight months or two summers* before
being allowed to graduate. In 1350 it was laid down by
law that no one should practise medicine before attaining
the degree of Magister.f It is clear from the list sent to
the Pope in 1362 that all students of medicine at Montpellier
were graduates in artibus,% and consequently
possessed a preliminary education in general knowledge.
The statutes of this medical school for the year 1340 §
afford us a glimpse into its condition. They deal with
the high office of the Chancellor, who administered the
government of the school; with the office of Dean,—
which was conferred on him who had longest acted as
teacher there, and was really an honorary post, the chief
duty of its incumbent being to represent the Chancellor;—
with the election of two Procurators from among the
teachers, to superintend the management of the property ;
and possessions of the university ; with the general
meetings of teachers taking place twice every year, in
which they took counsel together upon matters affecting --\
the teaching and the finances of the school; and with the
duties of teachers and students. The latter were obliged
to present themselves directly after their arrival to- the
Procurators who entered in a book their names and the date
of the commencement and termination of their studies, '«
receiving a fee for this which varied in amount according
to whether it was question of a Student or of a Bachelor:
* In locis famosis quinque annos, si in artibus magistri existantidonei,alioquiit
per sex annos, pro quolibet anno octo d'untaxat mensibus computalis ejusdem facul- ,
tatem oudiverint medicince, ac in similibus locis per octo menses aul per duas
astates adminus ejusdem medicince praxim duxerint exercendam. ASTRUC op.cit.
p. 46.
f ASTRUC op. cit. p. 54.
X DENIFLE op. cit. S. 355, note 562.
§ A. DUBOUCHET op. cit. Gaz. hebd., No. 6 et seq.