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THE MIDDLE AGES.
university ; the theological faculty alone formed an exception
; but in the middle of the 14th century this also came.
under his authority.
He alone could be elected to the office of Rector ,|
who possessed an academical degree in the philosophical J
faculty, in other words, a good general education. The
usage gradually came into vogue of conferring this dignity
upon a man in a prominent position of life, who sometimes
if not always belonged to the teaching-staff. A similar
arrangement prevailed afterwards at the academies at. :
Vienna, Prague, and other places. A Dean of the medical |
faculty is mentioned in the year 1267; this was PETRUS J
LEMONENSIS* The Dean was elected by the medical g
corporation, the President of which he was. He was not:
allowed, at least in later times, to give lectures lest the. j
administrative business which was entrusted to him should^
cause him to neglect them. ']
The teachers in the faculty of medicine were divided |
into those whose duty it was to give lectures and demon- j
strations—thereby satisfying a definite want in the plan ;|
of studies—and into those who lectured of their own free |
will. The former presided at discussions and on solemn |
occasions, and were called Doctores, or Magistri actu-i
regentes ; their position corresponded nearly to that of our
professors in ordinary. The other members of the teaching
staff, the Doctores non regentes, were not bound to employ
themselves actively as teachers, and in consequence had |
no participation in the various privileges and sources of
income which the class just mentioned enjoyed. ^ The
teachers of the university generally gave instruction at :
their dwellings. The medical faculty had a building of \
its own for the first time in 1505. Up to that time its meetings
were held in the church of the Mathurins, or in the |
cathedral of Notre Dame. We get information as to the|
numerical relations of the several faculties from the fact-
* BCCHEZ : Delafaculte de medecine de Paris in the Journal des progres des-*
sciences et institutions me'dicales, Paris. 1822.