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MEDICAL TEACHING.
created a professorship of anatomy. At Wiirzburg an
anatomical theatre was established in 1724 ; it was a domed
building with sky-lights and had water laid on ; the cost of
it was io,ooofl. In the Parnassus Boicus (Miinchen, 1725,
p. 310) mention is made of it thus : " No expense is being
spared in the. improvement of the studium anatomicum et
chirurgicum, and a famous surgeon has been summoned
thither from Paris—Monsieur SlVERT by name—at a high
salary (namely 400 reichsthaler) ; his duties being to
demonstrate the art of surgical manipulation in a skilful
manner, and to teach anatomy or the dissection of the
human body, for which purpose corpses are provided him
out of the splendid hospital: thus he has not long ago completed
an examination of a woman who died insane." In
1788, the anatomical institute at Wiirzburg was enlarged,
two rooms being built, adjoining the amphitheatre, to
deposit the anatomical collection in; to these were added
a hall used by the students in which to practise dissecting,
a room in which the Professor worked, and a kitchen.*
The University of Breslau was furnished with an anatomical
j&gatre in 1745, and that of Konigsberg in 1738 ; in the latter
,la'se thanks to the Professor of Anatomy of the day who
had it built at his private expense.f The anatomical
theatre at Pavia accommodated 400 spectators, was well
lighted and adorned with the portraits of celebrated
anatomists. In the hall adjoining it, which was paved
with broad squares of stone, and was provided with a fireplace,
large boilers, and a constant stream of pure water,
the students practised dissecting.^: Establishments of this
kind were also founded in towns which possessed no
universities, such as Berlin, Bremen, Frankfort-on-the-
Main, Niirnberg and others, and were given up to the use
of the doctors and surgeons. At many places a shed or
some other place of which no use was otherwise made,
* KOLLIKER op. cit. S. 25, 75, 78.
f D. H. ARNOLDT op. tit.—FRANK op. cit. vi, 2, S. 88.
X J. P. FRANK op. cit. \i, 1, S. 327.