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troops. It was certainly a remarkable phenomenon that at
such a period of general overthrow the thought of erecting
temples to knowledge should have occurred to men's minds;
it shows what courage—what moral and intellectual power
—these men possessed, and how firmly and surely they
hoped and built upon the hope of the restoration of the
State*
The medical faculty of the University of Berlin was
developed out of the Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum, at
which, in 1806, before the outbreak of the war, there was a
teaching staff of eighteen ordinary and two extraordinary
professors. The faculty took over a portion of the teaching
staff and some of the schools, taking care to improve and
complete the educational establishment by summoning to
their assistance distinguished and learned men like REIL,
Hu-FELAND, RUDOLPHI, and others, and by making some
necessary additions to the schools of science. The establishment
for the education of doctors for the army at Berlin,
which, at the instigation of G6RCKE, had been provided ip
1795 with an excellent organization^ was associated with
the university in such a way that the students of the former
attended the lectures at the latter. These students were
divided into those who were being educated for medical
degrees and those who were passing the course of instruction
required for " surgeons of the first class." With the
abolition of the latter category of doctors, the training of
such for the army came also to an end. The institution
serves at the present day as a boarding-house for students
under the direction of military medical officers. The
students receive from the State lodging and instruction
gratis, and even get pecuniary support, to a certain extent, .
during their studies ; and in return they incur the obligation.
of serving for a certain number of years in the army. The
* RUD. KOPKE: Die Griindung der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin,
Berlin i860.
f J. D. E. PREUSS: Das K. Preuss. medicinisch-chirurgische, Friedrich-.
Wilhelms-Irrstitut zu Berlin, Berlin 1819, S. 28 et seq. .,