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PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

PHYSICS.

MR. GALBRAITH.

1. Describe the mercurial thermometer, and state how it should be used to ascertain the temperature of the body of an animal.

The temperature of an adult man, taken under the armpit, varies, according to Gavarret, from 36°.5 to 37°.5 centigrade. Reduce these to Fahrenheit scale.

2. In order to compare the temperatures of different parts of the human body, Becquerel used thermo-electric needles and a galvanometer. State the method of making this experiment.

3. Define a unit of heat-specific heat--latent heat. State the values of the latent heats of water and steam.

4. How much steam at 212° F. must be condensed in a bath of 20 gallons of water at 60° F. in order to raise it to 100° F. ?

5. What methods are resorted to for keeping the surface cool? State the principle on all which such methods are founded.

6. State the construction of any self-registering thermometer with which you are acquainted.

7. The division of bodies into electrics and non-electrics has been superseded by Gray's division into conductors and non-conductors. State an illustrative experiment.

8. Of what use is the row of points opposite the glass plate or cylinder in the common electric machine?

9. State the construction of a cell of Grove's or Bunsen's battery: illustrate by a diagram, and state the use of the nitric acid.

10. How would you convert a bar of soft iron into a strong magnet? State the principle of induction on which this is supposed to be effected.

CHEMISTRY.

DR. APJOHN.

1. Explain the process of the B. Pharmacopoeia for making bromide of potassium, and how you would test the salt for iodide of potassium?

2. How would you insulate the elements of hydrochloric acid, and how would you combine them so as to form the acid?

3. Heavy spar is usually employed for the preparation of the soluble barytic salts. Give the details of the process.

4. How is mercuric sulphate made, and how is it converted into turbith mineral, corrosive sublimate, calomel, and the yellow oxide of mercury?

5. A good source of chlorine is bichromate of potassium, acted upon by hydrochloric acid. Explain its development from these materials. 6. How is Ferri sulphas granulatum made, and what change does it experience when through a solution of it a stream of chlorine is passed?

7. Mention the processes by which, from cyadine of potassium and ferrous sulphate, ferrocyanide of potassium may be made, the method by which this compound may be converted into ferrocyanide of potassium, and the action of the ferrocyanide and the ferridcyanide on the ferrous and ferric chlorides of iron.

8. Give the process mentioned in the British Pharmacopœia for converting amylic alcohol into valerianic acid.

9. How would you use nitroprusside of sodium to demonstrate the presence of unoxidized sulphur as as a constituent of the proteinic compounds ?

10. A triatomic alcohol occurs in the present edition of the British Pharmacopoeia. Mention its name, write its formula, and explain how it may be obtained.

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

DR. REYNOLDS.

1. Analyse the three specimens of simple salts handed to you, and marked respectively a, b, and c. Name the base and acid present in each compound, and explain the steps of the analysis.

2. The organic liquid before you contains either Arsenic or Antimony. Determine precisely which of these metals is present.

3. Completely convert the solution of ferrous sulphate given you into ferric sulphate, and fully explain the process.

BOTANY.

PROFESSOR E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT.

1. Describe the chief forms of underground stems.

2. Describe Aculei as they occur in the Bramble, and contrast them with spines, say of the Black thorn.

3. Enumerate the chief forms of vernation of individual leaves.

4. Enumerate the structures met with in a two years old stem of the Bark Oak.

5. State what you know as to Pringsheim's researches into the spectroscopic analysis of Chlorophyll and Etiolin.

6. Give examples of Protandrous and of Protogynous flowers.

7. Give the native countries of the following:

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8. Enumerate the forms of fruit met with in Solanaceæ, and mention any that are good for food.

9. What are the characters of the natural family cf the Cruciferæ ? 10. Describe the plant on the table, using the schedule given to you for this purpose.

DR. MOORE.

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL.

1. Describe the vegetable cell and its contents.

2. Describe the formation of woody tissue in a dicotyledonous stem. 3. Describe the movements of sap in plants, stating the parts of the plant through which it ascends, also the causes of these movements. 4. Describe the function of leaves in plants.

5. Describe the pollen grain, stating the manner in which fertilization is effected in Angiosperms.

6. State the nature of a hybrid, and the difference between a hybrid and crossbreed.

VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMS.

7. Describe the reproduction and fertilization in Ferns.

8. Describe the reproduction in Marsilea or Isoetes.

SYSTEMATIC BOTANY.

9. State the essential characters of the Natural Order Solanaceæ. 10. Describe the plant on the table, using the Schedule given to you for this purpose.

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1. Describe the pharmaceutical processes-maceration, infusion, and digestion. Why is Infusum Calumbæ directed to be macerated?

2. What are the doses for an adult of the following preparations in the British Pharmacopoeia:

Hydrargyri Iodidum Rubrum.

Tinctura Digitalis.

Hydrargyri Perchloridum.

Creasotum.
Nitras Argenti.

Extractum Ergotæ Liquidum?

3. How is Acetate of Morphia to be readily distinguished from Hydrochlorate of Morphia?

4. Write a prescription in Latin, without abbreviations or symbols, for twelve pills, containing Croton oil, and suitable for a case of consti pation in a delicate young female.

5. What is Cochineal? How is the diluted tincture affected by the addition of an acid, and by the addition of an alkali? What change takes place in Tinctura Croci when exposed for some time to light?

6. Give the characters of Iodine, and the tests for its purity. How would you test for Iodine the urine of a person who had taken Iodide of Potassium for some days?

7. What is Veratria? Give the Botanical name and part of the plant from which it is obtained. How is Veratria readily distinguished from all other alkaloids, and what preparation of it is in the Pharmacopoeia?

8. Name six of the most active vegetable Cathartics, and the average dose of each for an adult.

9. Describe the colour of Mistura Ferri Aromatica, and of Mistura Ferri Composita, and state the form in which Iron exists in each preparation.

10. Give the distinctive characters of Gallic and Tannic Acids; which of them is most suitable for internal administration?

DR. RAWDON MACNAMARA.

1. Contrast, in their physiological and therapeutical aspects, Opium and Belladonna.

2. How is Manna obtained? How does it differ from, and how does it resemble, ordinary Sugar? State its physiological effects, its uses, dose, and mode of administration.

3. Describe the physical appearances of a Senna leaf. Contrast these with the physical appearances of the impurity most frequently met with in the Senna of commerce. Describe the pharmacopoeial preparations containing Senna, and state their dose and mode of administration.

4. Explain the pharmacopoeial process for making the Mistura Feri Composita. Mention its physiological effects, dose, and mode of adminis

tration.

5. Explain the pharmacopoeial process for preparing Carbonate of Zinc, and account for the effervescence alluded to.

6. Describe the pharmacopoeial process for preparing Santonine. What are its uses, doses, and best method of administration?

7. From what source is Bael fruit obtained? State its therapeutic value and mode of administration.

S. What special therapeutic value, over the other Antacids, has been ascribed to Lithia? What are its pharmacopoeial preparations, their dose, and mode of administration?

9. Mention what would influence you in selecting one, in preference to another, of the following Cathartics :-Aloes, Rhubarb, Podophyllum, Sulphate of Magnesia, Castor Oil, Croton Oil.

10. Explain the pharmacopoeial process for preparing Nitrate of Silver. What are its physiological effects, its therapeutic value, dose, and best mode of administration?

DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY.

DR M'DOWEL.

1. Enumerate the connexions of the frontal bone.

2. What bones form the several walls of the orbit ?

3. The attachments, mode of action, and nervous supply of the digasric muscle?

4. Describe the origins, course, and distribution of the greater and lesser occipital nerves.

5. Enumerate the arteries met with in the dissection of the back of the neck.

6. Describe the dissection you would make to expose fully the pan

creas.

7. Mention the several arteries which supply this gland.

8. Give the distribution of the median nerve of the plexus.

9. Give the fascial relations of the femoral artery in the upper part of Scarpa's space.

10. Enumerate and classify the several muscles which act as rotators of the hip joint.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR
'IN MEDICINE.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Describe and contrast the appearances seen on a transverse section of the spinal cord in the cervical, dorsal, and lumbar regions.

2. The origin and distribution of the spinal accessory nerve.

3. Describe the various forms of areolar tissue met with in the human body.

4. Describe the structure of the capillary blood-vessels.

5. Describe the arytenoid cartilages and the action of the several muscles attached to their structures.

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNTET.

1. Mention the conditions under which emphysema of the areolar tissue occurs. State the value of this symptom in determining diagnosis

or treatment.

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