l68 UNIVERSITY OF ST. MARK. 



salaries of the professors and officers. For this purpose, four- 

 teen thousand nine hundred and six piastres, arising from the 

 produce of the nine-tenths set aside for the royal treasury by 

 all the dioceses of the kingdom, were assigned in 1613, by 

 the viceroy, the marquis of Montes Claros. To this new fund 

 considerable additions were subsequently made, by the gene- 

 rosity of several individuals, and the zeal of the ministers of 

 the church. 



In 1 69 1, a professorship of medicine, after the pra6tice of 

 Galen, was founded ; and as the useful anatomical lessons, 

 without which the obscure labyrinth of the human body could 

 not be developed, were still needed, a professor was appointed 

 in 1 711, for the delivery of these leftures, and for the prac- 

 tical demonstrations which were to take place weekly, in the 

 royal hospital of St. Andrevi^, on one of the dead bodies. In 

 1790, an amphitheatre was ere6led for the use of the anato- 

 mical students. 



It being one of the provisions of the laws of the kingdom, 

 that the Castillian tongue should be generally spoken, and 

 the Indian idiom extinguished, the professorship which had 

 been established, for the teaching of the latter, at the time of 

 the foundation of the academy, was suppressed in 1784, and 

 one of moral philosophy substituted in its stead. 



The fees disbursed on the admission to the different degrees, 

 were originally very high. Each do6tor of the faculty, be- 

 sides paying a considerable sum to the rector, head master, 

 register, and other officers, was obliged to fee all those who 

 composed the chapter, or assembly, at the time of his admis- 

 sion. If he took a secular degree, he gave to each of them a 

 velvet bonnet ; and if the degree was ecclesiastical, a bonnet 



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