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few years later it formed as before the board of inspection
for the affairs of the faculties and conducted the whole
system of education.
In 1804 the period of study for students of medicine and
of the higher surgery was extended from four to five years
and it was decreed that the first three years should be
devoted to theoretical training, and the last two principally
to attendance at the clinics. At the same time it was
notified that no one should be admitted to the study of
medicine who had not during three years previously
attended^ lectures on ''philosophy" at the university and
'had acquired a satisfactory general education. Every
teacher was obliged to spend at least half-an-hour every
week in satisfying himself by questioning his pupils, that
the substance of his lectures had been understood and
assimilated by them. At the end of every half-year public
examinations of the students were held, and it depended
•upon the result of these whether they should be per­
mitted to attend the regular course of lectures for the
following half-year. Moreover, the regulations for the
qualifying examination, held at the conclusion of the
period of studentship, were made more severe and
the examiners were admonished to apply them strictly and
conscientiously.
In 1810 a new medical curriculum was arranged in
which those subjects which had lately been added to the
course of study were included. According to this medical
"students had to attend classes on the following subjects
during the periods specified : 1st year, introductory course
on medico-chirurgical study, natural history in its bearings
on medicine, botany and systematic anatomy; 2nd year,
more advanced anatomy and physiology, general chemistry,
pharmacy and animal chemistry ; 3rd year, general patho­
logy and therapeutics, aetiology, semeiology, materia
medica et chirurgica, dietetics, the art of prescribing,
midwifery, general and' special surgery, surgical instru­
ments, bandaging and ophthalmology; 4th and 5th years,
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