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240 THE MIDDLE AGES.
years were spent upon this subject, and in such a way that" •
for the first year's lectures the first Canon of Avicenna,
with the explanations of JACOBUS FOROLIVIENSIS, served as
a guide ; for the second year the ars parva of GALEN, with
the commentary of TRUSIANUS; and for the third the)
Aphorisms of HIPPOKRATES, with GALEN'S remarks, upon
them. At one o'clock in the afternoon the lectures on\
practical medicine took place: these also claimed a three
years' course. The foundation for the.first year's lectures*
on this subject was the 9th book of the Liber Medicinalisf
ad Almansorem of RHAZES which contained pathology,
,with the remarks of JOH. ARCULANUS ; for the. second year -j
•the subject of fevers ; and for the third general therapeutics,
after the Canon of Avicenna, with the explanations of 4
DINO DE GARBO and others.
Along with these regular lectures, delivered by appointed |
professors, certain doctors belonging to the medical faculty
dealt with particular subjects in special lectures; the J
subjects being chosen by them as they liked, and being of
such a nature as, for example, the Prognostics of HlPPO- 1
KRATES.
The course of study recommended to the students in
1520 by MARTIN STAINPEIS, professor in the medical*|
faculty at Vienna, was of the same kind.* In his book he*
enumerates the medical writings which they should readyj
and arranges them according to their contents in such away
that they appear, if studied in orderly succession, |
calculated to make students acquainted by degrees with
the several parts of medical science. Mention is there j
made of the most important medical authors of antiquity;
and amongst the Arabs, with their expounders, and also&
of the works of a number of Italian doctors which had at ,
that time obtained a considerable notoriety. STAINPEIS
discusses the use of this reading to the future doctor, M
* MARTIN STAINPEIS: Liber de modo studeridi seu legendi in medicina,
Vienn. 1520, f. vii et seq.—A. v. ROSAS: Geschichte der Wiener Hechschulgu.bes.
der med. Facultat, Wien 1843, i, 149 et seq. ,.