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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Medicine.
The Swedish School of Medicine is in our days of a very high standard,
attained through the thorough clinical instruction of prominent teachers; and also
Swedish science and learning in the dominion of Medicine has a well founded
reputation in other countries. In many parts of Sweden excellent hospitals have
also been unsparingly erected during the last two decades.
The development of Anatonj in
Sweden, as in other countries, has been
closely united with that of the Medical
science, to which a knowledge of the
construction of the human body is
fundamental. The first instruction in
Anatomy, of which we have any record,
took place in the beginning of the 17th
century in Uppsala at the private
Medical College directed by the brothers
J. and P. Rudbeckius. In 1613 the first
professorship of Medicine was founded
at Uppsala, when J. Chesnecopherut
was made professor »of Physiology». In
1624 the second Chair of Medicine was
founded, to which J. Frank was
appointed, who also for a long time
conducted the instruction in anatomy.
There did not exist yet, however, any
dissecting-room, and the prejudice of
people against the dissection of the
human corpse put great obstacles in the
way. Olof Rudbeck (1630/1702) was
the real pioneer of anatomical science
in Sweden. This ingenious, energetic
and manysided man, who already at an early age became famous through his
discoveries about the chylous and lymphatic systems, was the first who succeeded
in introducing dissection of the human body, which, in order to lesson people’s
aversion, was performed with very great ceremony. Contemporary with O.
Rudbeck, P. Hoffvenius (1630/82) was at work in Uppsala, renowned also for his
lectures on anatomy. Among later anatomists at the University of Uppsala may
be named A. Murray (1751/1803), a distinguished lecturer and author, and
F. E. Sundevall (1811/81), who instituted the Anatomical Museum. E. Clason
(born 1829) has perfected the museum, and issued various works on Anatomy.
I. Sandström (1852/89) discovered glandula parathyreoidea. J. A. H. Hammar
(born 1861) is at present conducting the instruction in histology and embryology,
and has published several works; J. V. Hultkrantz (born 1862) is in charge of
the instruction in macroscopical anatomy, and has devoted himself to studying
the joints and anthropology, and J. Broman (born 1868), who has written several
treatises on subjects relating to embryology and histology, especially the spermatozoa.
In Stockholm the instruction of anatomy has been under the auspices of
Collegium medicum ever since the end of the 17th century. Among the instructors may
be noticed Urban Hjärne (1641/1724), L. Roberg (1664/1742), Abraham Bäck
(1713/95), Roland Martin (1726/88), the surgeon Olof af Acrel( 1717/1806), and
A. J. Hagströmer (1751/1830), during whose time the regulations at the Caroline
Institute (the Faculty of Medicine in Stockholm) were confirmed in 1815 and 1822.
Olof Rudbeck.
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