" I speak, of course, from the
position of the natural man, who sees for his fellows more hope from the
experiments of Roger Bacon than from the disputations of philosophy on
the "Instants, Familiarities, Quiddities and Relations," which so roused
the scorn of Erasmus.
MEDIAEVAL MEDICAL STUDIES
IT will be of interest to know what studies were followed at a mediaeval
university. At Oxford, as at most of the continental universities, there
were three degrees, those of Bachelor, Licentiate and Doctor. The books
read were the "Tegni" of Galen, the "Aphorisms" of Hippocrates, the "De
Febribus" of Isaac and the "Antidotarium" of Nicolaus Salernitanus: if
a graduate in arts, six years' study in all was required, in other
faculties, eight. One gets very full information on such matters from
a most interesting book, "Une Chaire de Medecine au XVe Siecle," by Dr.
Ferrari (Paris, 1899). The University of Pavia was founded in 1361, and
like most of those in Italy was largely frequented by foreigners, who
were arranged, as usual, according to their nationalities; but the
students do not appear to have controlled the university quite so much
as at Bologna. The documents of the Ferrari family, on which the work is
based, tell the story of one of its members, who was professor at Pavia
from 1432 to 1472.
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