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Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam Menno A. de Rie with contributions by Jan D. Bos, William R. Faber, Henry J.C. de Vries, John de Korte, Rosalie M. Luiten, Jan R. Mekkes, Phyllis I. Spuls and J.P. Wietze van der Veen Introduction In 1813 King Willem I decreed Amsterdam as capital city of the newly established Kingdom of the Netherlands. At that time, Amsterdam had no university, but it did have a comparable institution called the “Athenaeum Illustre”. Founded in 1632, it was not until 1865 that the Athenaeum received full authority for academic medical education. Before 1865 surgeon students and midwives were educated in the out-buildings and lazar houses that surrounded the municipal hospital. The conversion of the Athenaeum Illustre into the Municipal University of Amsterdam was celebrated with due ceremony on the 15th of October, 1877. History Jan Leonardus Chanfleury van IJsselsteijn Jan Leonardus Chanfleury van IJsselsteijn (1819-1905) was named professor of skin and venereal diseases in Amsterdam in 1867, the first such appointment to be made in the Netherlands. Chanfleury studied medicine in Groningen and completed his Ph.D. to Doctor medicinae, chirurgiae et artis obstetriciae in 1844. Initially, he worked in the Municipal Hospital (Stadsziekenhuis) of The Hague, treating patients with syphilis and skin diseases. Later he became the hospital’s medical director. After some years his career took him to the Binnengasthuis, the academic clinic of the University of Amsterdam. He was among the founders of the Dutch weekly medical periodical now known as the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. The recognition that venereal diseases required a specific approach, was probably the basis for his appointment. His inaugural address was titled “On the special clinics” and mainly concerned the question of how to stem the spread of venereal diseases, whose destructive impact could be felt across all levels of society at the time. It was in his day that the Dutch expression “going under the clock” (a euphemism for visiting a VD clinic) was first coined, referring to the large clock at the entrance of the Binnengasthuis’ outpatient clinic where syphilis 27 3 BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:39 Pagina 27