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PHYSICS.

MR. GALBRAITH.

1. State the principal physical characters of Mercury, viz., its specific gravity, specific heat, coefficient of expansion, boiling and freezing points.

2. Why is Mercury so well adapted to thermometric measurement, and also to barometric measurement?

3. Rays of heat follow the same laws of reflection and refraction as those of light. How may this be proved?

4. What is the latent heat of water?

How may it be found?

5. The boiling point of a fluid increases with the pressure on its surface. State an experiment which proves this.

6. State any method of measuring the amount of aqueous vapour in

the air.

7. Describe the Leyden jar, and explain its principle.

8. How may the electric current be used to detect and measure small differences of temperature?

9. Why should the plates of a battery be placed as near each other as possible?

10. On what three conditions does electric Resistance depend?

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

nR. REYNOLDS.

1. Determine precisely the quantity of urea contained in each fluid ounce of the urine given to you, and marked No. 1. Explain the pro

cess.

*2. Estimate the amount of real HCn contained in each fluid ounce of the acid given to you. Explain the process by an equation.

3. Name the alkaloid contained in the box marked No. 2, and describe the tests by means of which you identify it.

4. Analyse the simple salts contained in the two boxes marked No. 3 and No. 4; and state concisely the method of analysis pursued in the detection of the base and acid in each case.

* At least one of the quantitative estimations must be attempted. Double marks will be given for correct replies.

CHEMISTRY.

DR. TICHBORNE.

1. How would you detect calomel in the presence of corrosive sublimate?

2. When phosphorus is burned in a confined volume of air, what are the products remaining after the combustion, and what is the relative volume of gas remaining, as compared with the original volume of air?

3. Give an illustration of what is known as a synthetical reaction, and also of an analytical reaction.

4. Describe the process for the production of the acid carbonate of sodium (NaHCO3) as given in the Pharmacopoeia; and state why a mixture of crystals and dried carbonate of sodium is used in that pro

cess.

5. Write the formulæ of sulphate of iron, granulated sulphate of iron, and dried sulphate of iron. State are they ferric or ferrous salts.

6. "Arsenious acid" (As2O3) is estimated by a volumetric solution of iodine describe by an equation the reaction by which this estimation is effected.

7. What acid is it, the calcium salt of which is more soluble in cold than hot water?

8. The following equation is supposed to represent the decomposition that takes place on neutralizing lemon-juice with chalk ::

H3C6H5O7+ 3CaCO3 = CазC6H5O7 + 3H2O + 3CO2.

Correct it.

9. Describe concisely the method by which you would estimate the albumen in the urine of a man suffering from Bright's disease.

10. Bi203, and BiCl, represent the compounds, oxide and chloride of bismuth what atoms in these compounds are monads, dyads, and triads?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR
IN MEDICINE.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the situations where the internal and external pia mater are continuous.

2. Trace the channels by which visual impressions are conveyed from the eye to the brain.

3. Describe the minute structure of a particle of dead bone, and compare it with a similar portion of living bone.

4. Describe the course and distribution of the occipital artery.

5. The structure, relations, and mode of development of the crystalline lens.

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Describe the symptoms of syphilitic iritis, and give the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

2. State the characters of the ordinary variety of Lipoma, and particularly those on which you should rely to distinguish the tumour from cold abscess.

3. Mention the circumstances that indicate the performance of circumcision, and describe the operation as performed by the method of Ricord. 4. Give the symptoms of sub-coracoid dislocation of the head of the humerus, and name the accidents with which it may be confounded. 5. Name the causes of ozona, and describe the symptoms and treatment of the affection.

DR. MOORE.

1. State the various causes which may give rise to, and the symptoms and physical signs diagnostic of, partial and general collapse of the lung.

2. Mention the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of a case of chronic dysentery?

3. Enumerate the symptoms, physical signs, and pathology of acute rheumatic pericarditis in its various stages, and the treatment you would adopt.

4. Describe the various paralytic symptoms attendant on a case of chorea, and how you would treat them.

5. Give a typical case of "enteric fever," stating the ranges of temperature usually met with in its various stages, and their therapeutical indications.

MIDWIFERY.

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

I Podic and cephalic version-describe each operation.

*2. A. B. "supposed herself to be pregnant some two or three months. One morning she took the broom to sweep her chamber carpet, when suddenly she felt agonizing pain in the left iliac and pelvic regions, which extended through the belly. She fainted, and became mortal pale and pulseless. She expired in the course of a few hours." Write a commentary on the above.

3. You are called to see a woman suffering from hæmorrhage half an hour after the third stage. Describe such a case, and state how you would treat it.

* Each Candidate is required to attempt to answer this question,

4. In early pregnancy, what circumstances may favour retroversion of the uterus, and how would you treat such an accident?

5. Describe the appearance of a perfect vaccination on the twelfth day.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. The head, trunk, viscera, and limbs, of a dismembered body, supposed to be that of Absyrtus, having been collected and placed before you, from what circumstances observable in them will you be enabled to determine

(a) the identity with the person supposed,

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2. Being called to aid Titius who is suffering tetanic spasms, from what can you deduce that they have originated in

(a) an idiopathic,

(b) a traumatic,

or a

(c) strychnic cause?

3. Distinguish the gastric irritation of the gravid state, from that produced by an absorbed poison.

4. Enumerate the causes of death to which the fœtus in utero is liable, other than designed or accidental violence.

5. An outbreak of enteric fever, or of scarlatina, having occurred in a locality where many persons might become affected in the absence of prophylactic measures, what inquiries would you deem necessary for ascertaining the cause? and what directions would you give with the object of checking or circumscribing the development of the disease?

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

DR. PURSER.

1. Enumerate the constituents in each of the following articles of food, and state to what class of alimentary principles each constituent belongs:

:

Milk.

Wheaten flour.

Beef tea.

Cheese.

2. What do you understand by the glycogenic function of the liver? 3. What do you mean by vital capacity? Under what circumstances does it vary? What is the instrument called by which it is estimated? 4. Describe as fully as you can the effect produced on the circulation of the blood by the respiratory movements.

5. Distinguish between apnea and dyspnea, the words being understood in their physiological sense.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN
SURGERY.

SURGERY.

MR. COLLES.

1. A person is rendered insensible from a blow on the head; the surgeon feels a soft yielding spot, with surrounding hard edges. What may be the nature of the injury, and its diagnosis?

2. What are the symptoms and treatment in a case of rupture of the male urethra from violence?

3. In a case of dislocation of the femur on the dorsum of the ilium, give the relative positions of the prominences of each bone.

4. What are the changes occurring in the neck of a hernial sac from its first formation?

5. From what form of wound in an artery do we find the blood continue to flow longest?

SURGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

I. Mention in their order the coverings of the colon in either lumbar region. Describe the operation of colotomy, and give the names of the surgeons who originated this operation.

2. Describe the connexions of the tibia and fibula at their lower extremities.

3. Give an anatomical description of the mammary gland.

4. Describe the operation for extirpating the lachrymal gland, and mention the circumstances for which this operation may be undertaken.

5. Give the course, relations, and distribution of the lingual artery. Where may it be most easily ligated, and under what circumstances may this operation be required?

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