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RECENT TIMES.
ing, manners- and honour-compromising, pantalooning
Trousers-devil" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1556). A resolution
of the Senate of the Tubingen Academy of the year
1554 cautioned "the noblemen, so lately arrived here, in
respect of their unrefined and indelicate trousers" and.
called upon them "to lay aside such an objectionable and
soldiering garment."
MEDICAL TEACHING.
THE changes, brought about in medical science, exercise
an influence upon medical teaching inasmuch as the
quantity of subject matter as well as the number of .pro-?
fessorships and the means of instruction were augmented:!
the method, also, of medical education, in response to the |
importance acquired by anatomy and surgery, took by j
degrees a somewhat more practical direction. Events! 3
which had occurred in the history of civilization, discoveries
and inventions of many kinds, likewise exercised ;j
a powerful influence upon the system of education.
Before the discovery of the art of printing, libraries were j
the rarest and costliest things. The medical faculty of fe
Paris possessed in 1395 no more than nine works, among _
which the Continens of RHAZES was the most highlyf
prized. When King LOUIS XI. in 1471 wished to borrow
this work, in order to have it copied, long consultations
were held by the faculty upon the subject and they only
granted permission after the King had deposited as caution-
money 12 marks in silver and had granted a loan of 100 '
thalers in gold* Private persons could make collections
of books only by the expenditure of large sums of money.
Even so prominent and wealthy a doctor as TADDE0 .
ALDEROTTI, left at his death only four books; in thej
property bequeathed by the doctor FREIDANK we find no
* J. C. SABATIER op. cit— KOSEGARTEN (Geschichte derUniversitat Greifswald,
Greifswald 1857, ii, 232) g^s a catalogue of the books which in 1482 were
in the possession of the medical faculty of Griefswald.