466 A French Medical Legacy 



remembered his own difficulties in obtaining a medical education, for there 

 was provided a yearly allowance of 1,200 livres to each of the three hundred 

 chosen students for a period of three years, this being the length of time 

 allotted for a complete course of instruction. 



Two months later the Committee on Public Instruction, headed by Four- 

 croy, authorized the printing of a second small pamphlet entitled "General 

 Plan of Teaching in the Paris School of Health." This pamphlet proved to be 

 virtually an announcement of courses, with a schedule of class hours. It con- 

 tains, however, a much fuller description of the contents of the courses and 

 their aims than is usually to be found in the modern university catalogue. 



Instruction was classified under two headings, "Permanent courses" and 

 "Non-permanent courses or semesters." The former were to include the clin- 

 ical instruction in the hospitals which each student must attend daily from 

 the very beginning of his student days to their end; the latter were to include 

 twelve courses in special subjects taught by the twelve newly appointed pro- 

 fessors and their twelve associates. An academic year lasted a full calendar 

 year. The students' hours were arranged as follows: up to 10 a.m. (hospital 

 rounds began at 7 o'clock) and during his spare hours, he must spend his time 

 in one or other of the hospitals the year round. Three hospitals had been 

 selected for teaching, and students were to be assigned to each one for a period 

 of four months, thus going the entire round in a year's time. In the winter 

 semester, beginning September 24, first-year students at 1 o'clock daily, "except 

 on the tenth day consecrated to rest," listened to lectures in anatomy-physi- 

 ology. These two subjects were taught as one, and Chaussier very appropri- 

 ately had been given this chair in the Paris School of Health. His associate 

 was Antoine Dubois, who was destined later to become one of the great deans 

 of the Paris medical faculty. At noon on alternate days came lectures on 

 medical chemistry and pharmacy by Deyeux (who seems to have had no 

 associate). The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to practical exercises 

 in the laboratories. In the summer semester, beginning the last of March, at 

 10 a.m. on odd days, came lectures in materia medica and botany by Pey- 

 rilhe and Richard, and on even days, lectures in medical physics and hygiene 

 by Halle and Pinel; with no definite assignments in the afternoons. 



Second-year students in the winter semester again listened to lectures and 

 performed practical exercises in anatomy-physiology and medical chemistry 

 and pharmacy, but at noon on alternate days there were in addition lectures 

 in operative medicine by Sabatier and Boyer. In the summer semester the 

 student again listened to lectures in materia medica and botany but added at 

 noon daily lectures in pathology, external pathology on even days by Choppart 

 and Percy, internal pathology on odd days by Doublet and Bourdier, the 

 afternoons being devoted to a course in obstetrics by Alphonse Leroy and 

 Baudeloque. 



Third-year students in the winter semester again attended lectmes in anat- 

 omy, pathology, chemistry, pharmacy, and operative medicine, but they might 



