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Identifier: interstatemedica1319unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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t the ardent young student was not insensible to these surroundingsand memories. Padua, like Bologna, of which it was an offshoot, was auniversity of students in contradistinction to the magistral universitiessuch as Oxford. Cambridge and the university of Paris. The formerwere governed by the student body itself who even elected the professors,while the latter were controlled by the masters of arts. There were atPadua at that time two separate corporations, the Universitas Juristorumand the L^niversitas Artistarum. The latter included the faculties ofdivinity, philosophy and medicine. The medical session began on the Feast of St. Luke with an ora-tion in praise of medicine, followed by High Mass and the Litany of theHoly Ghost. The session lasted until the Feast of the Assumption, Au-gust 15th, and in this time the whole human body was twice dissectedin public by the professors of anatomy. The greater part of the work SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FABRICIUS OF AQUAPENDENTE. (151
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Illustrating comparative anatomy ofjgestation. (From De formato foetu ) 052 GRINDON. in the University was done between six and eight oclock in the morning,and some of the lectures were given at daybreak, although Fabricius whenhe became a professor lectured at the more reasonable hour of nine.(DArcy Power.)* At this University, Fabricius was to come in contact with two of thecreative minds of medicine, as the disciple of the one and the teacher ofthe other, the latter destined to outshine the two former; not only to achievea fame far greater than that of either Fallopius or Fabricius, but to rendera service to science and to humanity which places forever the name ofI larvey among those of the few real immortals. The young Englishmanmatriculated at Padua in 15().X. a date conspicuous as that of the publica-tion of the Edict of Nantes. Fabriciuss teacher was the great Fallopius. All historians agree in say-ing of him that he took the greatest interest in his pupils and spared nopains t

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