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248 THE MIDDLE AGES.
to be present at it; no more than 20 might attend at the
dissection of a male subject; at that of a female—a rarer
event_no more than 30; so that everyone might see distinctly.
No student was allowed to attend these demonstrations
until he had attended medical lectures for two
years. The Rector had to take care that all medical
students in turn should have the opportunity of seeing
dissections, and that the members of all student-corporations
should be equally respected in receiving invitations
to be present at them.. On this ground a rule was made,,;
that no student who had seen the dissection of a male: j
body should be invited a second time in the same year to a
similar demonstration. If such took place in the following J
year of studentship he was generally not again invited to
the dissection of a male but only of a female subject, so
that under favourable circumstances he might during his
studentship assist at the dissection of two male subjects
and one female. The students who were present had to ,
bear the expense of getting, removing, preparing and burying
the corpse; this, however, was not allowed to exceed
16 Bologna pounds for a male, and 20 for a female body.
Of this sum the professor who performed the dissection
received 100 solidi. The members of the Teachers' College
relieved one another in this function; no teacher was at
liberty to decline the demand of the students that he should
undertake the dissection of a corpse.*
In 1442 it was ordained by law that the authorities or
magistrates of Bologna should deliver over to the university
every year two corpses, one male and the other female,
or when the latter could not be obtained both male, for
anatomical dissection. It was not here prescribed that
the bodies should be those of criminals who had been
executed, but it was left to the judgment of the magistrates
to procure them in whatever way it was possible (quo modo J
cumque fieri poterit); only they were not allowed to make j
* Statut. dell' univ. di Bologna v. 1405, Rubr. 96, in CORRADI : Dello studio
dell' anat. in Italia op. cit. p. 638 etseq. 647.