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as it had been the headquarters of the Este military command. The
need to find new premises for its Institutions convinced the Rector
Giuseppe Cesari to start negotiations aimed at obtaining the transfer
of the building by the Ministry of War.
This is where the Institutions and the laboratories were transferred,
that until then had been located in the premises of the University
Palace and in part in the premises of the Clinical Schools in via Ber-
engario, as reports a walled plaque in the hall of the former monastery.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Hygiene was the first Institution to be
moved on 21 May 1898, and located in the premises of the first floor,
where it stayed until 1968, when - under the new name of Institution
of General Organic and Inorganic Chemistry - was moved to a new
location in the building of Biological Institutions in the University
Campus of via Campi, currently the headquarters of the Life Science
Department, and successively to the new headquarters of the Depart-
ment of Chemistry and Geology in via Campi.
Later, the Institutions of General pathology, Materia medica, Forensic
pathology, and General chemistry were moved to St. Euphemia.
The Institution of Experimental Physiology, moved in 1899 to the first
floor of the building, was given twenty furbished rooms according to
logic and functional principles, as a marble plaque affixed at the en-
trance of the former monastery reminds us. It stayed there until 1967,
when it was moved to the building hosting the Biological Institutions
in the University Campus in via Campi, now the headquarters of the
Life Science Department.
Before being moved to St. Euphemia, the Institution of Materia Med-
ica was located in four rooms of the building of Clinical Schools in
via Berengario. In St. Euphemia, the Institution was able to expand its
scientific activity by following the development of Pharmacology: in
fact, chemistry laboratories and rooms dedicated to the microscope