10 Medicine* [Chap. IV. 



To the foregoing review it may not be improper 

 to add, that the eighteenth century is distinguish- 

 ed above all preceding ages by the number and 

 QyiceWewce o^ Medical Schools. These have multi- 

 phed greatly, have been placed on a more exten- 

 sive and liberal footing, and been more frequented 

 than in any former period. At the beginning of 

 the century under revie^v, and indeed during the 

 former half of it, the university of Leyden was by 

 far the most celebrated place of medical instruc- 

 tion. Next to this in respectability stood the 

 schools of Italy. Soon afterwards the great school 

 of Edinburgh began to be formed. In 1719 the 

 first Monro, of that city, undertook to deliver lec- 

 tures on anatomy. He was in a short time joined 

 by other able teachers, who formed a regular plan 

 of medical instruction, and gained, in a few years, 

 a high reputation. Indeed, for more than forty 

 years the school at Edinburgh held the first rank, 

 and was resorted to more than any other by stu- 

 dents from all parts of the world. During the last 

 twelve or fifteen years, that celebrated institution 

 may perhaps be said to have, in some degree, 

 declined ; or rather to be more successfully rivalled 

 than before by several establishments for medical 

 instruction, especially by some on the continent 

 of Europe. The German medical schools, in par- 

 ticular, have lately much increased both in number 

 and excellence. 



Medical Jssocia/ioiis, for promoting the inteiv 

 course, combining the elTorts, and diffusing the con- 

 centriited knowledge of many physicians, though 

 not th(i exclusive product of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, yet, when considered with re§poct to their 



