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Title: History of the foundation of the School of Anatomy and Surgery
Authors: Farrugia Randon, Stanley
Keywords: Medical colleges -- Malta -- History -- 17th century
Medical education -- Malta -- History -- 17th century
Knights of Malta -- Malta -- History -- 17th century
Cotoner y de Oleza, Nicolas, 1608-1680
Order of St John -- Malta -- History -- 17th century
Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Malta -- History -- 17th century
Sacra Infermeria (Valletta, Malta) -- History
Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: Malta Medical Journal
Citation: Malta Medical Journal. 2006, Vol.18(4), p. 42-48
Abstract: In the year 1676, Grand Master Fra Niccolo' Cottoner introduced the teaching of Anatomy in the Holy Infirmary of the Order. The decree, laying the foundation for the teaching of Anatomy and Surgery in Our Islands, read as follows: Diecadem Gran Maestro di haver instituto a proprie spese nella Sacra Infermeria lo studio di Chirurgia et Anatomia, deputando un Medico fisico, perche' facci detta lettione non solemente alli barberotti di essa, ma a qualsiasi altro, che vorra' attendere a detti professioni; intendendo lasciar stabilito lo studio, se riuscira' di profitto sopra le vendite della sua fondatione perche' in avvenire si deputi sempre a d'affetto un Maestro di gli conduminji di Gran Maestri Suo successori. Il che fu da tutto il Venerabile Consiglio non solamente approvato, ma sommamente commendato il zelo di sua per l'introduzione di cose tanto necessario et importante'. A condition laid down in the Cottoner foundation, was that the occupant of the Chair of Anatomy and Surgery had to be a physician, besides being a surgeon. This decree was dated 19th December 1676.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/751
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