De microscopie in het onderwijs van de klinische scholen in Nederland (1824-1865)

Abstract

Microscopy in the teaching of the medical schools in the Netherlands (1824-1865) Besides the medical faculties at Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht there have been medical schools at some smaller places in the Netherlands. This article focuses on the interest in the microscope and its application in the curriculum, research and medical clinic of these medical schools, especially of the medical school at Rotterdam. In all these schools the interest largely depended on the scientific aspirations of their teachers; in the medical schools of Middelburg, Haarlem, Hoorn and Alkmaar microscopy was only incidentally paid attention to. In the medical school of Rotterdam the teachers made it part of the curriculum since about 1850: QJ, Goddard (1816-1906) for anatomy and physiology, N.H. Charante (1820-1848), C.A.J.A. Oudemans (1825-1906) and N.W.P. Rauwenhoff (1826-1909) for botany and pharmacy and J.B. Molewater (1813-1865) for clinical pathology. The medical school of Amsterdam remained out of consideration in this article. It becomes clear the there has been an intimate relationship between this development in medical-school teaching and the activities of the local medical and scientific societies. This aspect is illustrated by an account of the medical society Disce Discendus Adhuc at Rotterdam, Regarding microscopy it becomes clear that there did not exist any markedly discrepancy between academic and non-academic medical teaching.