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was to give lectures on chemistry and to show the
methods of compounding medicines in the dispensary
attached to the Julius hospital; the fourth gave lectures on
the special pathology and therapeutics of internal diseases,
took the students to the hospitals and made them familiar ;
with the treatment of the sick ; and the fifth.had to teach
anatomy and surgery : the last-mentioned was assisted by
a prosector, who acted also as chief surgeon and teacher ofi (
obstetrics* *•
The medical staff at Heidelberg had in 1763 four ordinary ^
professors, that of Gottingen in 1784 six, and that of Pavia, ,4
about the same time, eight.t The curriculum, which P
FRANK drew out in 1785-86 for the medical faculty of Pavia, |
shows what demands were made upon the head of a department
at that time.J The natural sciences assumed a
position of higher consideration than before; this is clearly
indicated by a decree of the reigning Prince Bishop of
Wiirzburg in 1782, in which he says: "If in former times
men had reason to consider it a settled truth that physics
formed a subject of study not only very useful but absolutely
indispensable for those who had a mind to devote themselves
to medicine, in our days when physics has assumed
such a greatly improved form still less can we venture to
doubt it; arid although physics may be of less use to theologians
and jurists than to students of medicine, yet the
advantages which future students of theology and law may
expect from mathematics and the so-called practical philo­
sophy are at length beyond dispute."§
The medical faculty of Vienna possessed already in 1780
nine regular professorships devoted to the following subjects;—anatomy,
physiology, natural history, chemistry
and botany, general pathology and therapeutics with
materia medica, medicine and clinical teaching, theoretical
* WEGELE op. cit.—KOLLIKER op. cit. S. 75.
+ P. FRANK op. cit. vi, 2, S. 46.
X Ibid. Suppl.—Band i, S. 176 et seq.
§ WEGELE op. cit. ii, 428.