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faculties, " but only to be opened for the demonstration of
the viscera, not for complete dissection."* The Prussian
Government also issued orders calculated to provide against
a failure of the material needful for anatomical study.
The dissecting-room at Gottingen received the bodies of
prostitutes and of illegitimate children. In Vienna, after
1749, the hospitals had to provide bodies for anatomical
investigation and demonstration, when no executions took
place.f M. STOLL thought that the material for study
would be much increased if the corpses of bankrupts were
also assigned to this use. The anatomical school at Abo, '!
in Finland, was even allowed to claim the bodies of all ;
those who had received support from the State.
It was during this period that the first special buildings
were erected for anatomical dissection. HAZON has left a
•description of the anatomical theatre which was built in
Paris in the year 1604. The construction of this was
effected within a fortnight: it was very small and by .t
no means solidly built. Only a short time afterwards
another was erected in its place, of larger size and
better suited to the purpose, but which, nevertheless, was^
also exceedingly inadequate. It had, for instance, mm
window but only an air-hole, as HAZON, who attended
lectures there as a student in 1730, informs us, and was
consequently exposed to the cold and wind. At thej
suggestion and under the direction of WlNSLOW, the \
Paris school of anatomy in 1744 became possessed of
a building of free-stone provided with glass windows. |
The institution for anatomical teaching at Leyden was
provided with skeletons of men and of various kinds
of beasts and was roomily arranged. % The guild of
surgeons at Edinburgh founded an anatomical theatre in
1697, in which demonstrations were given, and in 1705 \
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* J. P. FRANK op. cit. vi, 2, S. 73 et seq.
t ,]. D. JOHN : Lexikon der k. k. Medicinalgesetze, Prag 1798, vi, 712 et seq. j,
X ALB. KYPER : Medicinam rite discendi et exercendi methodus, Lugd. '
Batav. 1643, p. 112. >••