DR. M'CLINTOCK.

1. What are the peculiarities of first labours?

2. What is the difference between a puerperal disease, and disease in a puerperal woman ?

3. What diseases are incident to the latter months of pregnancy? 4. Describe the stages of labour as defined by Denman.

5. At what period of pregnancy is retroversion of the uterus most apt to occur, and why at this period?

6. What are the symptoms commonly present in the first stage of labour?

7. What do you mean by "the mechanism of parturition"? and who made the first step towards our knowledge of this subject?

8. What means can we employ to promote the dilatation of the os uteri in labour?

9. In ordinary cases what treatment is required in the first stage of labour?

10. At what periods of pregnancy is hæmorrhage most dangerous to the mother, and at what to the fœtus?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN
SURGERY.

SURGERY.

MR. COLLES.

1. What symptoms indicate the growth of a benign polypus of the nose?

2. A person gets some shot in the arm: what symptoms would lead you to infer that a grain had wounded the brachial artery, and what would be your treatment?

3. What are the symptoms of perinæal abscess, and whence is there any difficulty in its diagnosis?

4. What are the diseases of granulation ?

5. How would you examine for a suspected fracture of the fibula?

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Give the characters, diagnosis, and treatment of intracapsular impacted fracture of the neck of the humerus.

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2. Give the diagnosis of inflammation of Cowper's gland, and state the prognosis and treatment of the affection.

3. Mention the circumstances attending a case of strangulated hernia that would cause you to anticipate the finding of a gangrenous intestine or omentum during operation. State the signs which would confirm your opinion on exposure of the contents of the tumour, and the line of treatment you would adopt in consequence.

4. Describe the modes of excision of the wrist adopted by Roux and Lister.

5. Give the causes, symptoms, and treatment of simple acute inflammation of the knee-joint.

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Explain the term "malignant" as applied to tumours, and give examples of the modes of malignant action.

2. State the characters on which you rely in distinguishing a sequestrum from a fragment of bone detached and killed by fracture. Give the views of Howship and of Virchow as to the origin of the characters of the sequestrum.

3. Describe the changes, immediate and remote, which follow the proper application of a ligature to a large artery (say the superficial femoral in Scarpa's angle) in continuity.

4. What are the structural alterations of articular cartilage induced by chronic rheumatic arthritis?

5. Name and describe the accompanying specimen.

SURGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Give the form, structure, and relations of the prostate gland. 2. Describe the operation for lumbar colotomy. Indicate the several structures which are met with in the different steps of the operation.

3. Describe the ligaments connected with the odontoid process.

4. The structures of which the scalp is composed, and the sources of their arterial supply?

5. The course, relations, and branches of the internal epigastric artery?

DR. T. E. LITTLE.

1. Name, in succession, the anatomical structures divided, and met with by the operator, in "Abernethy's Operation" for ligature of the external iliac artery.

2. Name, and indicate the position on the bone, of the structures attached to (a) the outer, (b) the inner surface of the inferior maxilla.

3. Describe the formation of the palmar arches. What are the most important anatomical variations met with? Indicate how these would influence you in your treatment of arterial wounds of the palm.

4. Enumerate, and describe, the various fascia met with in the dissection of the central line of the neck, from the surface to the vertebral column.

5. Mark, upon the accompanying diagram, the situation, with relation to the thoracic and abdominal walls, of the following parts:(a) upper and lower margin of the liver; (b) spleen; (c) right and left kidneys; (d) bifurcation of aorta; (e) course and limits of the iliac arteries; (f) external and internal abdominal rings.

MR. WILSON.

1. Give the symptoms, physical signs, course, complications, and treatment of purulent ophthalmia.

2. Give the symptoms, physical signs, course, and treatment of interstitial keratitis.

3. Enumerate the different instruments required for the extraction of cataract after the method of Gräfe, and describe the various stages of the operation.

4. What is the ophthalmoscopic appearance of the fundus in neuro

retinitis ?

5. Enumerate the various diseases of the eye which necessitate the removal of the globe.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN
MEDICINE.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

1. Specify some three of the drugs which are chiefly relied upon in the antipyretic treatment of fever. you advise the exhibition of each? would administer each.

Under what circumstances would
State also the mode in which you

2. Describe the appearances of an intestine affected with gangrenous dysentery (inflammation diphtheritie of Virchow).

3. What are the symptoms of hæmorrhagic infarction of the lungs ? Why should it be possible to confound this affection with pneumonia ?

4. How would you treat a case of acute desquamative nephritis? 5. How would you treat a case of acute oedema of the glottis ?

DR. MOORE.

1. Give a typical case of measles, detailing the symptoms which attend the period of invasion, and their prognostic value; also the specific character of the eruption, and the complications which may ensue ? 2. What do you understand by aphasia? Describe its modifications and varieties, and with what intra-cranial lesions we usually find it associated?

3. Detail the symptoms of strumous peritonitis, its pathology, diseases it may be confounded with, and its treatment ?

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4. Mention the diseases in which the highest temperatures are observed, and their various modes of defervescence ?

5. Describe the various cervical, venous, and arterial dilatations and pulsations met with, and their respective symptomatic value?

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Enumerate all the structures which constitute the septum narium. 2. Trace the motor and sensitive roots of the otic, spheno palatine, and ophthalmic ganglia, respectively.

3. Describe the muscular tissue of the middle coat of an artery as to the form, size, arrangement, and nervous supply of the muscular fibres. 4. The structure of the outer cineritious layer of the brain ?

5. Describe the structure and mode of action of the mitral valve.

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Compare simple with diphtheritic croup, and state the conditions under which you would advise tracheotomy in either disease.

2. Give the characters of retention of urine due to chronic enlargement of the prostate, and describe the treatment you would adopt for its relief.

3. Mention the causes of displacement of the sternal extremity of the clavicle, and state the varieties of displacement.

4. What are the varieties of staphyloma of the cornea and iris ? State the cause of each, and the modes of treatment adopted for each.

5. Give the characters of the cirsoid aneurism of Breschet, and its treatment.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

DR. PURSER.

I. What anatomical changes have been observed to occur in the secreting cells of the pancreas during the activity of this gland? What light do these changes throw on the process of secretion in general?

2. What effect does section of the pneumogastric nerves in the neck produce, (a) on the movements of the heart, (b) on the movements of respiration?

3. What effect is produced on the circulation of the blood by section of the spinal cord just below the medulla oblongata? (The life of the animal is supposed to be maintained by artificial respiration.)

4. What do you understand by the respiration of the tissues? In what tissues is the respiration most active?

5. Describe the epithelium which lines the different parts of the renal tubes.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE (INCLUDING PATHOLOGY).

DR. A. W. FOOT.

1. Describe the anatomical and histological peculiarities of what is commonly known as a "fatty liver," and mention in what respect the earliest seat of the fatty differs from that of the amyloid change.

2. Describe the seat and characters of the lesions in chronic dysentery.

3. Enumerate the pathological conditions under which the heart undergoes (a) atrophy, or (b) hypertrophy-partial or general.

4. Describe the physical characters and the pathological lesion in the so-called " sago spleen.'

5. Discuss the condition known as "post-mortem staining;" stating the parts usually most so affected, how to distinguish it from the effects of hyperemia or from the results of gravitation, and the circumstances which appear to regulate its amount and degree.

MIDWIFERY.

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

1. Enumerate the diseases of pregnancy affecting the circulation. 2. Describe the difference between Levrets' and Gooch's canula, and mention for what purpose these instruments were invented.

3. What circumstances, in the third stage of labour, would lead you to conjecture that the placenta was completely adherent, and how would you act under such circumstances?