page_title: University of Douai
section_title: Faculty of Medicine (1562–1793)
hierarchical_section_title: University of Douai / Faculties / Faculties of the old university of Douai / Faculty of Medicine (1562–1793)
caption_attribution_description: Copperplate engraving from "Nouvelles tables anatomiques: ou sont representées au naturel toutes les parties du corps humain, toutes les nouvelles découvertes, le cours de toutes les humeurs, les lieux où elles deposent leurs excrements: on y à joint un petit livre qui en fait la description et en explique clairement les usages avec ordre et un peu de mots / le tout dessiné et composé par Amé Bourdon, medecin." Cambrai/Paris:Laurens D'Houry, 1678. Original size 55 cm.
context_page_description: The University of Douai is a former university in Douai, France. With a medieval heritage of scholarly activities in Douai, the university was established in 1559 and lectures started in 1562. It closed from 1795 to 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai.
  From the mid-16th century onwards, the university of Douai had Europe-wide influence as a prominent centre of neo-Latin literature, contributing also to the dissemination of printed knowledge. With 1,500 to 2,000 registered students and several hundred professors, it was the second largest university of France during the late-17th and 18th centuries. Studies in mathematics and physics at the Douai Faculty of Arts enabled broad development in artillery practice. The Douai Faculty of Theology was an important center for Catholic scholarship. It played a role in religious doctrines and political controversies in Europe; its scholars participated in the development of new approaches to the humanities.
context_section_description: The faculty of medicine in Douai lives in the shadow of other more famous faculties, but is not at the tip of his time: it has a medical anatomical theater as early as 1700 . The names of Amé Bourdon for surgery and anatomy, Michel Brisseau in ophthalmology and Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois in medicine and botany reflect the teachings at the Faculty of Medicine.
  In 1805, a school of medicine was establied in Lille, as the successor of the school of surgery founded in Lille in 1705. It overshadowed medical education in Douai. Its heir is now part of the University of Lille.
caption: Tables anatomiques – Amé Bourdon (1678)
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