CHEMISTRY.-PART I: LABORATORY WORK.-PASS.

The Board of Examiners.

Examine thoroughly each of the substances marked A, B, and C respectively. Pay particular attention to the preliminary and blowpipe examination.

Give a full written report of your work, arranging it in three parallel columns headed respectively "Experiment," "Result," "Inference."

Only such abbreviations may be employed as are in general use among chemists.

No credit will be given for a correct result unless correct and sufficient reasons be given in support of it.

MATERIA MEDICA, MEDICAL BOTANY, AND ELEMENTARY THERAPEUTICS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. State what you know as to the actions of Expectorants, Emetics, Respiratory Stimulants, and Respiratory Depressants.

2. Coca. Give its source, composition, officinal preparations, chief actions, and uses.

3. What are the special actions and uses of Iodine and its compounds? Name the officinal Iodides, and give their preparations.

4. Give an account of the officinal substances obtained from the class Insecta.

5. Describe the preparation and the actions of Sulphuric Ether.

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE. PAPER I.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give the uses and preparations of Arsenic, Cocaine, Chloral, Phosphorus.

2. Discuss the therapeutic actions of Mercury, Iodine, Gelsemium, Gentian.

3. Describe the different kinds of Baths and their uses.

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE. PAPER II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe fully the different phases of the digestive process.

2. How can we influence digestion medicinally?

3. Discuss the influence of cooking upon the different kinds of food.

4. What is the "minimum air space"? How is it arrived at?

5. What do you know of the modes of entrance and of exit of the main infectious diseases?

6. Discuss the sexual instinct as a factor of personal health.

SURGERY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What are the pathological changes observed in Rickets? Detail some of the bone deformities met with in this affection. What treatment should be enjoined in a child aged, say five months, showing symptoms of rachitis?

2. What are the causes and symptoms of stricture of the rectum ?

3. If suddenly called to a case of retention of urine from organic stricture of the urethra, what remedial measures would you adopt?

4. Describe the pathological appearances of a joint in simple, chronic, and suppurative arthritis.

5. Classify burns according to the system of Dupuytren. What are the causes of death in severe burns?

6. Abscess. What is meant by Metastasic, Caseous, Chronic, Residual, Cold, and Tympanic Abscesses? Give briefly the causes, symptoms, and nature of these pus collections.

OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give the divisions of the decidua, and describe their development.

2. Describe the different positions which the foetus

may occupy in utero, and in each case mention where the foetal heart is most audible.

3. In pelvic presentations give the positions of the child, the prognosis, causes of foetal mortality and treatment.

4. Briefly describe the conditions and treatment of defective development of the female generative organs.

5. In a case of Retroflexion of the uterus what complications might be present, and what treatment adopted?

6. When the suckled child vomits or is purged, what treatment would you advise?

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of bronchiectasis.

2. What is the nature of the condition commonly known as alcoholic paralysis? Describe its symptoms and treatment.

3. Give the main points in the differential diagnosis of bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy.