title: [History of pre-academic medical education: the Gymnasium Illustre in Zerbst and the Philanthropinum in Dessau].
abstract: The memory of the foundation of the Gymnasium illustre in Zerbst in 1582 includes the memory of the medical propaedeutics which belonged to the school programme there. A series of graduates from this institution later had medical professionships at famous universities. Also the Dessau Philanthropinum attempted to carry out a kind of medical propaedeutics by a corresponding planning of the instruction. The two school system characterize a development the object of which was for different reasons to form a part of the grammar school education as preparatory medical instruction, in order to guarantee in this way an undisturbed transition to the university medicine.
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Zur Geschichte des präakademischen medizinischen Unterrichts: Das Gymnasium illustre in Zerbst und das Philanthropinum in Dessau.