MATERIA MEDICA, MEDICAL BOTANY, AND ELEMENTARY THERAPEUTICS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain fully the following terms:-Plumbism, fodism, Argyria, Mercurialism, Ergotism, Cumulative Action, Tolerance, Physiological Antagonism. Illustrate the three last by examples.

2. Name the officinal alkaloids, and their salts, derived from Opium. Give their distinguishing chemical tests, their preparations, doses, and modes of administration.

3. What is Aloes? State its botanical and geographical sources, physical characters, active principle, officinal preparations, doses, and action.

4. Name the officinal compounds of Arsenic, and give their preparations and doses. Describe its physiological action (a) in large doses, (b) in small doses long-continued.

5. Give the doses, and the proportion of the active constituents, of the following preparations:-Pilula Saponis Composita, Tinctura Chloroformi et Morphinæ, Acidum Hydrocyanicum Dilutum, Pulvis Ipecacuanha Compositus, Injectio Ergotini Hypodermica, Pilula Plumbi cum Opio, Suppositoria Plumbi Composita, Mistura Creasoti, Injectio Apomorphine Hypodermica, Pulvis Elaterini Compositus.

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THERAPEUTICS.

FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. How would you treat a cough?

2. Contrast the anaesthetics Ether and Chloroform, according to the phenomena of anesthesia, mode of administration, sources of danger, and suitability in any given case.

3. Write in full the following prescriptions:

A sedative lotion, an astringent injection, an antispasmodic mixture, an antiseptic inhalation, a saline diuretic, a laxative pill, a stimulant expectorant ;

and state precisely the class of case in which each would be used.

4. What are the physiological effects of Massage?

5. Describe the mode of action and uses of Salicylic Acid.

6. State what you know of the mode of action, dosage, and uses of Nitro-glycerine.

DIETETICS AND HYGIENE.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

A.-1. Discuss the sources, mode of usefulness, and manner of elimination of the nitrogenous alimentary principles.

2. Contrast salivary, peptic, and hepatic digestion.

3. Give, in detail, the diet scales of the Munich, St. Bartholomew's, and the Melbourne Hospitals.

B.-1. Quote Parkes' fourfold classification of potable

waters.

2. Discuss the conditions necessary for the successful removal of excreta by means of water.

3. Contrast the more important disinfectants, and state precisely what you would do with clothing, bedding, rooms, drains, discharges, and dead bodies during epidemics of scarlatina, typhoid fever, and small-pox.

EXAMINATION FOR THE WYSELASKIE SCHOLARSHIP.

ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.

PAPER No. 1.

Professor Elkington.

1. Trace the history of the Navigation Laws, and explain clearly at what time and for what reasons they were repealed.

2. "Such then was the effect of the New World on the Old."-Seeley, p. 92. Write a full explanation.

3. State the case against Sir John Fenwick, and discuss the measures for regulating trials for treason introduced in William the Third's reign.

4. Explain shortly the nature and the history of these

measures:

(a) The Quebec Act 1774.

(b) The Quebec Government Act 1791.

(c) The British North America Act 1867.

5. What are the several kinds of qualification for membership of the House of Lords? Trace very shortly the history of each kind.

6. In what respects did the normal relation between the Crown and the baronage in Scotland differ in medieval times from that in England?

7. Mr. Richey holds that the history of the reign of Mary and Philip contradicts the theory that in the sixteenth century religious differences had any connection with the conduct of the native Irish, or of the English Government in Ireland. For what reasons?

8. Give the history of Ministerial changes in England from the resignation of Lord North to the complete establishment in power of Mr. Pitt's long Administration, and point out any constitutional principles that were either affirmed or disregarded during that period.

9. Trace the more important historical consequences of the long ascendency of Mr. Pitt.

10. "This then is the second great phase of the foreign policy of our Indian Empire."-Seeley, p. 285. Explain fully.

11. Sir Henry Maine points out (Reign of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, p. 470) that the mutiny of the native army of Bengal constitutes the dividing line between two periods.

(a) Distinguish the periods referred to.

(b) What, in your opinion, were the causes of the mutiny?

12. When and under what circumstances did Victoria become a separate Colony? When and under what circumstances was the present Constitution of the Colony established? What was the form of Constitution which preceded?