5. Mercury has a freezing point expressed by the same number on the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales; from this fact find the number.

6. Why are wool, fur, feathers, and the like, good materials for warm clothing?

7. What is meant by electric tension? What is the use of the row of points in charging the prime conductor of a machine with positive elect: icity?

8. How is an induced current produced? What determines its direction ?

9. Describe the double gold-leaf electroscope. 10. Describe the galvanoscope.

ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. The attachments and uses of the ligamenta subflava ?

2. Describe the ligaments of temporo-maxillary articulation.

3. Enumerate the branches of the lingual artery.

4. Trace the course of the superior laryngeal nerve, and give its distribution.

5. Give the origins of the inferior constrictor muscle of the pharynx. 6. The origins and cervical stage of the phrenic nerve?

7. The origin, insertion, and principal relations of the coraco-brachialis muscle ?

8. Enumerate the muscles of the palate, and mention the nervous supply of each.

9. The course and relations of the circumflex arteries of the thigh? 10. Give the relations of the internal iliac artery, and enumerate its branches.

1. Refer the plant on the table to the Natural Order to which it belongs and Tribe of that order.

2. State the essential characters of the natural order Rosacea, and state the one character by which plants belonging to Rosacea can be with certainty distinguished from those of Leguminosa.

3. Describe the physical conditions most favourable for germination of seeds, and state the part of the young plantule which first breaks through the testa of the seed-for example, that of a bean or pea.

4. State the parts of the Ovary of an exogenous plant.

5. Describe the parts of the trunk of a woody exogenous plant, from the centre to the exterior, such as an Oak or Ash tree.

6. Describe all the parts of the flower of any Liliaceous plant, and state the botanical term which is applied to distinguish such flowers from those of flowers of exogenous plants.

7. Describe the germination and fecundation of plants belonging to the natural order Filices.

8. Describe the parts of a stamen, and state how the mother cell of the ovule is fertilized.

9. State the principal divisions of De Candolle's arrangement of the Vegetable Kingdom, and give the principal characters which distinguish each division.

10. State some of the chief distinctions between the seeds of cellular plants and those of vascular plants.

DR. AQUILLA SMITH.

1. What are the average doses for an adult of the following preparations in the British Pharmacopoeia ?-viz., Elaterium, Extractum Ergotæ liquidum, Pilula Saponis composita, Tinctura Aconiti, and Zinci Valerianas.

2. Give the composition of Linimentum Crotonis, and describe its action on the skin.

3. Enumerate the preparations of Bismuth in the Pharmacopoeia, and state the dose of each.

4. Describe the colour of each of the following Tinctures, viz.: Tinctura Assafoetidæ, T. Cannabis Indica, T. Lavandula composita, and T. Quassiæ. The effect of diluting each of them with water, and explain the cause of such changes as result from the dilution.

5. Write a prescription in Latin (without abbreviations or symbols) for a draught equivalent in its action to ten grains of Pulvis Ipecacuanhæ compositus.

6. Give the mode of preparing Tinctura Colchici, and Vinum Colchici, the average dose of each preparation, and state the effect of an overdose of either of them.

7. What is the colour, odour, and taste of Chloral Hydras, does it deliquesce or effervesce on exposure to air, and what quantity is in one fluid drachm of Syrupus Chloral ?

8. How is Syrupus Papaveris made? State its action and the objection to employing it in the diseases of children. How is Syrupus Rhæados prepared, and what is its action?

9. Give the characters of, and the test for, Guaiac Resin, and the average dose of each of its liquid preparations.

10. How much lime is held in solution in one fluid ounce of "Liquor Calcis Saccharatus"; and how much lime in one fluid ounce of "Liquor "Calcis"?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR
IN MEDICINE.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. In the investigation of supposed blood-stains, what are the reasons why you would not rely either on

(a) the cyanogen test?

or on

(b) the reaction of T. Guaiaci with an ozonised fluid ?

2. Examining the dead body of a new-born child, you determine that it had attained the full period of uterine life, that it had survived its birth, and had died asphyxiated. Explain how this state of circumstances may be consistent with the absence of criminal culpability in the mother, or any other person.

3. In a chance quarrel, Caius receives a punctured and contused wound, causing little pain and but trifling hæmorrhage. He walks onwards to his destination several hundred yards distant, and a simple dressing is applied by a surgeon. But within a few days subsequent, this seemingly slight injury proves fatal. Explain how this may occur.

4. Corinna, who is known to be well acquainted with the properties of Hydrocyanic Acid, is healthy and of sound mind, dies suddenly and unexpectedly, within her own apartment. A phial said to have contained poison, but now empty, is clutched firmly in one hand, when the body, as yet scarcely dead, is discovered. To justify the conclusion that death had either suicidally, or unintentionally, been caused by Hydrocyanic Acid, state the means which, in such case, you would use :

(a) To ascertain whether Hydrocyanic Acid were present within the body? and if so,

(b). To determine its quantity-and whether it had been the cause of death?

5. On behalf of Titius, accused of a crime, the plea of Insanity is alleged to free him from responsibility and its consequences. What means will you adopt to guide you in a diagnosis between a true insanity, and one which has only been simulated for the occasion?

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. What are the classes of cases in which tracheotomy is practised? State the prognosis in each class.

2. Name the varieties of dislocation of the acromial extremity of the clavicle in the order of the frequency of their occurrence; and state the injury most likely to be confounded with dislocation of this extremity of the bone.

3. A stab of a penknife has penetrated deeply into the forearm of a healthy young man; the wound, corresponding in size to the blade of the knife, is placed on the radial border of the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris. Free arterial hæmorrhage has taken place, and is controlled by a compress secured over the wound. The ulnar artery can be felt pulsating, above and below the compress. The slightest shifting of the compress causes a recurrence of the hæmorrhage. State the treatment you would advise in this case, and the difficulties likely to be met in practising it.

4. Give the characters of extroversion of the bladder.

5. Name the forms of paronychia, and state the circumstances that should determine the adoption of active surgical treatment in this disease.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

DR. PURSER.

1. What is a sphygmograph? Describe the construction and mode of application of any instrument of this class with which you are acquainted.

2. When the pulse increases in rapidity, what change occurs in the relative lengths of the systole and diastole of the ventricles ?

3. Describe, and explain, the modification of the arterial pulse which exists in cases of patency of the aortic valves, with hypertrophy of the left ventricle.

4. Describe as fully as you can the structure of one of the larger salivary glands. What anatomical change is said to be produced in the secreting cells of these glands by their functional activity?

5. What are the different theories which have prevailed as to the sources from which the corpuscles of pus are derived ?

MIDWIFERY.

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

1. How does the corpus luteum of pregnancy differ from that of menstruation ? In your answer, describe minutely the structures composing that body.

2. Enumerate the circumstances calling for podic version. Explain the nature of the operation, and the manner of performing it.

3. Contrast retroversion and retroflexion of the uterus; and give the causes of retroversion in the pregnant and non-pregnant condition of the organ.

4. What rules would you endeavour to enforce in the artificial rearing of the infant during the first seven months after its birth?

5. What objections have been raised, from time to time, against the use of chloroform in obstetric practice?

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the ileo-colic valve, and the mode of its action.

2. Trace the chorda tympani nerve, and state what results follow the stimulation of this nerve.

3. Describe the structures connected with the alimentary canal which are composed of closed follicles.

4. The structures which compose the wall of a large artery?

5. The anatomy of the pericardium? What are its uses ?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN
SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. State the conditions which should determine the selection of lithotomy or lithotrity as the mode of treatment of any given case of stone. 2. Give the symptoms of rickets, as the disease commences in the infant in arms, and in the child already walking.

3. State the diagnosis of impacted intra-capsular fracture of the neck of the humerus.

4. State the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of varicocele of the testis.

5. State the circumstances that should determine the performance of amputation in a case of compound fracture of the bones of the leg.

DR. BUTCHER.

1. Describe the different forms of malignant tumor occurring in the female breast; the characters of each; and the circumstances under which it would be advisable to remove the part. Also detail minutely the complications which would prevent any operative interference.

2. Mention the various accidents that may occur from venesection at the bend of the elbow, according to the vein selected.