The moral aspects of medical life, consisting of the 'Akesios' of Professor K.F.H. Marx / translated from the German, with biographical notices and illustrative remarks, By James Mackness.

  • Marx, K. F. H. (Karl Friedrich Heinrich), 1796-1877.
Date:
1846
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    of his pithy and pregnant remarks, as we may be able to furnish. As the views of Professor Marx on the subject of medical education—its superficiality—the over-crowding of the mind with studies—and the corresponding want of true mental discipline, may be reasonably supposed to be at least partly drawn from his experience of the working of systems of education in Germany, it is worth while, before proceeding further, to look a little at the nature of that system, as developed in the German universities. The following details are taken from the report of Dr. Hoefer, a French physician, who was officially employed to obtain information relative to the teaching and practice in the principal states of Germany. The account has reference to the University of Berlin, which is stated to be the most complete of the German universities, and a sort of model for those of the secondary states. In this university there are fourteen chairs, occupied by fourteen titulary professors. 1. General anatomy, and anatomy of the sensitive ap- paratus. 2. Descriptive anatomy. 3. Medical pathology and clinique. 4. General physiology. 5. Comparative physiology and micrography. 6. Botany and pharmacy. 7- General pathology and materia medica. 8. General and special surgery. 9. Clinical surgery. 10. Midwifery. 11. Legal medicine. 12. Sanitary police, public hygiene. 13. History of medicine, encyclopedy, and methodology. 14. Syphilitic diseases, special therapeutics of acute and chronic diseases. These professors are assisted by eleven extraordinary and thirteen private professors. No student is allowed to matriculate as a member of any of the faculties of Prussia, unless he present a certi- ficate showing that he has finished his classical studies in a college (gymnasium), and has passed the (arfriturienten exameri) (examen arhiturorum in universitatem). This is