Entrance Hall

The Entrance Hall of the Faculté de Médecine in Montpellier is a room of notable dimensions (20m x 8.5m). It is decorated with 16 terracotta busts of ancient physicians or early masters of the school.

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Among them we can notice: Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Claudius Galen, Andreas Vesalius, Paolo Zacchia, Guillaume de Baillou, Jean Pecquet, François Mauriceau, Georg Ernst Stahl, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Albrecht von Haller, Paul Joseph Barthez.

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On the Hall's walls some memorial tablets remember famous students and benefactors of the medical school.

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  • Photos by Andrea Angelucci (February 2024)
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