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committed to their care. There were then two " kliniks" for medicine, 

 by Nasse, an advanced one, and an elementary one, intended to teach 

 students how to conduct the advanced one. Meyer he also met, who 

 had been Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Bonn, and pupil 

 of Kielmeyer, " of whose views and lectures he spoke in terms of high 

 admiration." He met also Treviranus (the younger), Professor of 

 Botany, Bischoff, Neumann, and Weber, the then Prosector. He 

 notes a case in the dissecting room of the whole body of a man in 

 whom there was complete situs inversus of all the viscera ; and the 

 writer well remembers what interest Allen Thomson took in the dis- 

 section of a similar complete case of inversion of the viscera, which 

 occurred in the dissecting room of the Glasgow University.* 



At Heidelberg he met Tiedemann, and carefully noted the contents 

 of his museum. At Strasburg he met Ehrmann, and made copious 

 notes of his museum. At Tubingen he met Autenrieth and his 

 prosector, Professor Bauer. There he visited " the little dirty class- 

 room in which Haller and Cuvier studied." Thence to Stuttgart 

 and on to Freyburg, in Baden, and to Zurich. Here he met with 

 Oken, then Rector of the University ; also Schoenlein, Professor 

 of Medicine, and other distinguished teachers ; thence to Berne, 

 Lausanne, and Geneva. He next visited Aix-en-Savoie, or Aix-les- 

 Bains, and Milan. 



At Milan he was shown great attention by Professor Panizza, the 

 successor of Scarpa ; and at Parma, by Professor Tommassi, and by 

 Pasquali, the Professor of Anatomy. Here he found the University 

 partly broken up, and about half the building occupied as a 

 barrack for soldiers, in order to repress the revolutionary spirit 

 of the students. He notices in Professor Pasquali's Museum of 

 Anatomy, that " the dried muscular and arterial preparations were 

 entirely painted," and puts the question, "Why is this so seldom 

 done; it seems to preserve the preparation well, and to make it more 

 clear?" He afterwards, in Glasgow, adopted this method to a great 

 extent in all dried preparations. At Bologna he notes that at present 

 (August, 1833), the University is " in disgrace, and no lectures except 

 the experimental ones are allowed to be given. The Professors are 

 obliged to give their lectures at their own homes, and soldiers are 

 placed at the doors." He notes that " Comparative Anatomy is 

 taught by Professor Alessandrini, under the name of 'Veterinary 

 Anatomy,' the former title being considered by the Pope as of a 

 revolutionary nature." He saw some beautifully injected feetal mem- 

 branes, more particularly of the true allantoid of the mare, and of the 

 endochorion and the decidua in the bitch. 



At Rome he notes that, " as in the rest of the Papal States, science 



* Described and figured in the ' Grlasgow Medical Journal ' for July, 1853. 



