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peutics of individual diseases. The Professor of Surgery
had in the first year to speak de tumoribus according to
GALEN, in the second, on ulcers and wounds after GALEN,
HIPPOKRATES, and the Arabs, and in the third, on fractures
and dislocations according to GALEN and HIPPOKRATES,
Besides this, in summer he had to treat the subject of
materia medica and to demonstrate the officinal plants, and
in winter to teach anatomy and physiology. The list of
lectures was more accurately settled by the professors in the
midsummer holidays so that it could be committed to paper i
and published in the catalogue with the arrangement of
lectures of the other faculties.* In an official report, which
was drawn up in 1569 upon the lectures delivered by the pro-
\iifi fessors of medicine at Heidelberg, it is said: 1. Professor
lf- :•-. ••>•*' CURIO is reading de generibus morborum ex Galeno, is
explaining Hippocratis de morborum signis, and has an
audience of three or four. 2. Professor ERASTUS gives no
lectures, as he is attending the fair at Frankfort-on-the-
Main. 3. Professor SiEGMUND MELANCHTHON is lecturing
upon the art of medicine according to GALEN, and has
some five pupils.f This report casts a light also upon;the
numbers belonging to the medical faculties at that time.
They appear very small compared with to-day. Medicine
was seldom represented at Leipzig by more than from foijr
to six persons. The academy at Basel numbered, in 1,556,
two professors and two students of medicine.J At Erfurt,
between the years 1392 and 1520, only five doctors of
medicine were created, as against 120 of theology and 40'
of law. Many Germans frequented universities abroad^,
especially those of Paris, Bologna, Padua, and Montpellier.
In Padua there were, in the year 1564, about 200 Germans
studying law.§ Medical students sought out by preference
* A. v. KOLLIKER op. cit. S. 58. F. v. WECELE : Geschichte der University
Wiirzburg, 1885, ii, 191-199.
f J. F. HAUTZ op. cit.
X PLATTEH op. cit. S. 169.
§ MEINERS: Geschichte der Entstehung u. Entwickelung der hohen Schulen,
Gottingen 1802.