3. What are the proofs alleged for the nervous origin of Zona ?

4. What are the leading features of the disease termed Lymphadenoma? Who first described it ?

5. What plan of treatment would you advise to check the colliquative diarrhoea of phthisis, accompanied by profuse perspiration ?

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

1. Enumerate the various poultices and stupes used in the treatment of the puerperal state, and mention under what circumstance each may be applied.

2. What are the causes of hæmorrhage (a) from conception to full term, (b) during the course of labour, (c) soon after labour, and (d) during the process of involution?

3. In cases of abortion, how long may the secundines be retained after the foetus has been expelled? Mention the possible dangers that may accrue to the patient from such a retention, and what measures would you adopt in such a contingency?

4. After a difficult labour, what symptoms and circumstances would lead you to expect that the soft parts within the pelvis were in a sloughing condition, and what would be your treatment of a case of this nature?

5. Explain the reason why the child is sometimes born asphyxiated in cases where during the second stage uterine and voluntary action is nearly continuous, and the delivery rapid.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

DR. PURSER.

1. What is the evidence which shows that the secretion of glands is influenced by their nerves?

2. What nerves govern the movements of the heart? What action has each nerve?

3. How are the sounds of the heart caused? Give the reasons for your answer.

4. Where are Lieberkühn's glands found?

How has their secretion

been studied? Give what is known as to its action.

5. Mention some of the most striking differences between the contraction of striped and that of unstriped muscle.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE (INCLUDING PATHOLOGY).

DR. A. W. FOOT.

1. Describe the appearances presented to the naked eye on examining a section from a moderately-distended and dried lung in vesicular emphysema.

2. Mention the characters and usual situations of gliomata.

3. Describe the pathological nature of the disorders of vision which are liable to occur in Bright's disease.

4. Describe the usual post-mortem appearances seen in maculated typhus, fatal about the tenth day.

5. Describe the conditions likely to be found in a heart which had afforded a loud musical diastolic murmur, most audible at and below the mid-sternal region.

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

I. Give the characters of renal colic; and state the treatment you would adopt during the attack, and subsequently.

2. Contrast the clinical features of lupus and epithelioma.

3. State the special characters of fracture of the lower third of the shaft of the femur, and the complications which may directly result from the form and displacement of the fragments.

4. Compare the symptoms of glaucoma and cataract, and mention the appearances which may lead to the mistaking of the one disease for the other.

5. What are the circumstances under which hæmorrhage commonly occurs from varices? State the treatment which should be adopted for its control.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDence.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. The dead body of Caius-apparently about thirty years of age, clothed, and free from marks of violence—having been found submerged in a river, easily fordable, and not rapid; from what circumstances will you deduce that the cause of his death was drowning?

2. Mention the symptoms of oxalic acid poisoning, and the treatment you would use, if called on in time. Explain the principle of such treatment.

3. The body of a fœtus, from which the thoracic and abdominal viscera have been completely removed, being submitted to you for investigation, from what may you deduce that the condition of viability had been attained?

4. Distinguish the stupor of inebriation from that of

5. In the examination of transverse deep incised wounds of the throat, inflicted during life, and which must have rapidly proved fatal, on what will you rely as indicating whether they were suicidal, or altericidal ?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN

SURGERY.

MR.

SURGERY.

COLLES.

1. Mention some forms of hernæ that are without a hernial sac.

2. What are the causes of fracture of the patella?—and enumerate the difficulties experienced in its treatment.

3. An incised wound of the lung, with bleeding, cuts the pleura : what is the treatment?

4. What are the chief distinctions between hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis and encysted hydrocele ?

5. What is the nature of cirsoid aneurism, and in what situation has it been observed ?

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Mention the circumstances under which clear fluid has been observed to escape from the ear after injury of the head: state the characters of the fluid and of its escape which would justify a positive diagnosis of fracture of the base of the skull.

2. State the injuries which commonly give rise to emphysema, and the treatment of the affection.

3. Enumerate the symptoms of Potts' fracture of the fibula; give the details of the apparatus of Dupuytren for its treatment.

4. Describe the operation of Guthrie for ligature of the posterior tibial vessel, and mention its special advantages.

5. Give the diagnosis and treatment of tubercular disease of the testis.

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Mention the varieties of incomplete fractures of bone.

2. Explain the terms "first intention" as applied to the healing of wounds, and state the conditions necessary for the accomplishment of union by this method.

3. Compare the appearances of dead and living pus corpuscles.

4. Give Virchow's classification of cartilaginous tumours,

5. Name and describe the accompanying specimen.

1. Describe the shape, position, and boundaries of the crural ring; and mention the structures of which Gimbernat's ligament is composed. 2. Give the mode of formation, course, and relations of the external jugular vein.

3. The insertions of the tibialis anticus and of the tibialis posticus, respectively; give the relations of these tendons to bones and bloodvessels before reaching their insertions.

4. Mention the veins and nerves which are related to the right subclavian artery in its first stage, and the nature of such relation in each instance.

5. Describe in their order the several fascia which are met with in the dissection of the perineum.

DR. T. E. LITTLE.

1. Describe the Synovial Membranes which are met with in the Earsus.

2. Enumerate in the order met with, and describe briefly, the anatomical structures divided, or concerned in "Amussat's Operation" for Artificial Anus. What anatomical reasons are given for the situation selected; and for the direction of incision recommended?

3. Describe the relations of the Trachea in the neck.

4. In case of ligature of the Femoral Artery at the "angle of Scarpa," what arterial anastomoses would you rely upon to carry on the circulation of the limb ?

5. Detail the sensory and motory symptoms you would expect to follow a wound severing the Peroneal Nerve beneath the head of the fibula.

OPHTHALMIC SURGERY.

MR. RAINSFORD.

1. Give the signs, symptoms, and treatment of parenchymatous iritis.

2. Describe the appearance of the disc in "optic neuritis." What forms of the disease are met with ?

3. Define what is meant by zonular cataract, and enumerate the various methods of treatment adopted in this disease.

4. Give the signs, symptoms, and the treatment you would adopt in a case of episcleritis, and what disease may it be mistaken for.

5. What are the signs, pathology, and treatment of trachomatous eon junctivitis?

DIPLOMA IN STATE MEDICINE.

DR. GORDON.

1. What do you consider the chief sources of disease which are under the control of the individual?

2. Explain how they affect the health of the community.

3. Enumerate the diseases to which you would apply the term " ventible."

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4. What proportion of deaths result from diseases of this nature in England? Does the death rate of "preventible diseases" differ in different sections of the community? How?

5. Contrast endemic, infectious, epidemic, and contagious diseases, and show the relations they bear to each other.

6. What are the diseases which appear associated with the natural conditions of this country?

7. Contrast and explain the mode of communicability of the following diseases: cholera, typhus, smallpox, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever. 8. Enumerate the forms of employment which induce disease. do you propose to mitigate their bad effects?

How

9. How do you calculate the "infant mortality" and the mortality from zymotic disease of any given place? Give examples.

10. Contrast the death rate of the country districts with that of the large towns of England. Explain this difference.

1. Describe the condition of the blood observed in fatal cases of cholera.

2. State the naked-eye and the microscopic appearances resulting from chronic inflammation of arteries.

3. Contrast the features of a lung affected by caseous pneumonia with those of one suffering from tuberculosis.

4. Compare the appearances of diphtheria affecting the pharynx, larynx, and trachea, respectively.

5. Give the characters of traumatic encephalitis.

6. What are the anatomical features of interstitial myelitis of the spinal cord, and the varieties in the distribution of the affection?

7. Mention the changes observed in the mucous coat of the intestine in dysentery.