Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling students: who went where; how did they travel; what did they find when they arrived; what did they take back with them from their studies. Even a single individual could transform medical studies or...

Hieke Huistra introduces a new way of understanding anatomical collections: as dynamic and flexible entities, intended for hands-on use and to be reused again and again. This prolonged use is best illustrated with the oldest institutional collections in Europe: the Leiden anatomical collections. Using these as the main case study, the author demonstrates that anatomical collections of the nineteenth century were not just for observation, but also for handling: preparations were taken out of their jars, given round in class, felt, smelled, reinvestigated, and redissected. She shows how the...