Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral (1866) (14763046182)

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Title: Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Fuentes, Manuel Atanasio, 1820-1889
Subjects: Lima (Peru)
Publisher: London : Trübner & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hives of the Congress; ahall appropriated to the Medical Society; also a general hall forthe University proceedings, and which is hkewise used as a placeof meeting for the College of Advocates. In this hall there are 92 lowseats and 73 higher, besides two galleries, one of them for the ca-nons, the other for the ladies. Its architecture, though old, is sub-stantial and handsome. The upper part of Ihe walls is entirely co-vered with portraits of former professors and rectors, among whomare some persons of distinguished literary merit. For some years past no lectures have been giv en in the Universityand the title of professor is purely honorary. At present, and in virtue of the last regulation of the Minister ofPublic Instruction, the University no longer holds the exclusivelight of conferring degrees, which may now be obtained in theschools of Medicine and Law. In the days of its splendour, the University counted among itsmembers men eminent in literature and science, and Ihc examina-
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3 1 y t 5 > •n 1 1 > J ■a m-M J.. r i - CDp o CLO Co oo c r t c « C C • f r • * LIMA. 47 tions for the degree of doctor were oxcoediiit;ly severe. The reclorswere also very scrupulous us to the personal qnnlifies of the can-didates ; none but those of gentle buth and honourable conductcould aspire to a seat in thai fcmplo. The last but one of llie Proto-medicos (1) of Peru, Dr. Don Jose Manuel Valdes, was pre-eminentin his day as a scientific physician and a mystical poet; but his greatmerits were not sufticient t(» induce the University to receive himinto its bosom. He was obliged to \isit Madrid and solicit from theking the permission which was refused to him in Peru, as a manof colour; and the king, after due inquiry, deigned to grant it.Dr. Valdes was therefore the first coloured man who graduated inLima. Since then similar honours have been obtained by men ofdarker hue and less brilliant talents. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lima. — The old proto-med