EXAMINATION FOR PRIZES IN RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE. SHAKSPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW," AND "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL."-THOMSON'S "CASTLE OF INDOLENCE."-THE POEMS OF GOLDSMITH.-BACON'S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING." PROFESSOR INGRAM. 1. Explain the following passages from Shakspeare :— a. b. C. d. e. f. g. me. "You would present her at the leet, Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts." "If you strike me, you are no gentleman; And if no gentleman, why, then no arms. Pet. A herald, Kate? O put me in thy books." "Gru. Thou hast faced many things. Tai. I have. Gru. Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not I will neither be faced nor braved." "Let higher Italy (Those 'bated, that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy) see, that you come "I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow." To the dark house, and the detested wife." "Noble she was, and thought I stood ingag'd; but when I had subscrib'd 2. Write notes on the italicised words and phrases in the following quotations : 66 a. Why, give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby." b. "For shame, thou hilding, of a devilish spirit." C. "Was ever man so beaten? was ever man so rayed? was ever Of every line and trick of his sweet favour." "If I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel the woman and I will do as we may." "Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love." g. h. "We have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall to-night." (Stage direction). "Enter a gentle Astringer." 3. What conjectural readings have been proposed in the following passages? (Knight's Text) : a. b. e. d. "Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray; As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd." Where hope is coldest, and despair most shifts." "Tongue, I must put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazeť's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.' "I see that men make ropes, in such a scarre, That we'll forsake, ourselves." 4. a. Distinguish the lines contributed by Johnson to the "Traveller" and the "Deserted Village." b. What passages of the "Castle of Indolence" were written by Armstrong and Lord Lyttleton? 5. Explain the following sentences from Goldsmith and Thomson :"The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, a. b. C. d. Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel." "Here Douglas retires from his toils to relax, The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks: No countryman living their tricks to discover ?" "Thou wilt be glad to seek the rural shade, There to indulge the Muse, and Nature mark; We then a lodge for thee will build in Hagley Park." "Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of the age; But call'd by Fame, in soul ypricked deep, A noble pride restor'd him to the stage." 6. Explain the old words and forms: breme, eath, eftsoons, kest, mell, sicker, swink, weet, wonne, yfere, yode. 7. a. b. C. "But these I passen by, with nameless numbers moe." "If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by.” "And taunts he casten forth most bitterly." Which of these forms are legitimate, according to early English use? 8 a. What were the six parts of Bacon's Instauratio Magna, and what was the nature of each? b. Exhibit in a tabular form Bacon's General Distribution of Human Knowledge; and give what you consider a correct estimate of its value. 9. In what senses, now obsolete, does Bacon use the following words: allowance, battle, disable, indifferent, propriety, purchase, regiment, resort, respective, taxation? The Candidates were also examined rivâ voce in Rhetoric, the History of English Literature, and the History and Etymology of the English Language. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN MEDICINE. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. DR. STOKES. 1. Give the views of Brown-Sequard with reference to the "Trophoneurosis" of Romberg. 2. State the constitutional conditions which are held to contra-indicate the use of mercury. 3. What local disease appears to contra-indicate the employment of chloroform by inhalation? 4. A rule has been proposed in the treatment of fever, deduced from the condition of the pupil. 5. Give the differential diagnosis in the following conditions:a. Aneurism of the abdominal aorta. b. Cancerous tumours of the abdomen. c. Abscess of the left lobe of the liver. e. Excited action of the abdominal aorta in a case of permanent patency of the aortic valves. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PROFESSOR M'DOWEL. 1. Mention the superficial relations of the digastric muscle. 2. Describe the origin, course, and distribution of the spinal accessory nerve. 3. Enumerate the occipito-axoid ligaments. 4. Mention the peculiarities of the respiratory system in birds. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. DR. BANKS. 1. Give the distinctive signs of pleuritis without effusion, and pleurodynia. 2. State the distinctive signs of pleuritis and pneumonia, when the respiratory sounds are inaudible. 3. In what respects does asthenic pneumonia differ from sthenic, with reference both to symptoms and physical signs? 4. How would you treat a case of asthenic pneumonia? 5. Do you know of any peculiar character of the sputa which may be considered to indicate the presence of a vomica? 6. What is the character of the urine in chorea, and what relation does it bear to the state of muscular movements? SURGERY. DR. R. W. SMITH. 1. Enumerate the signs of fracture separating the lower epiphysis of the radius, and contrast them with those which are present when the lower end of the ulna is also broken. 2. Mention the opinions entertained as to the pathology of Ranula. Describe its characters, and the various methods of treating it. 3. Describe a case of traumatic delirium; contrast it with delirium tremens. 4. Mention the different operations recommended for the cure of aneurism at the bend of the elbow, resulting from venesection. State which you would prefer (should pressure fail), and your reasons for so doing. 5. What is the treatment adopted in cases of hydrarthrosis? MATERIA MEDICA. DR. OSBORNE. Write prescriptions in full, and general treatment for the following cases : A.-A man, aged about 65, now lying comatose; pulse 58, weak; extremities cold; bounding of large arteries; bruit de soufflet, and enlarged space occupied by the heart. Fell down two hours ago; antecedents unknown. B. A girl, aged 12; a diffused redness of the skin; painful deglutition, with deep redness of the velum and tonsils; pulse 120. Febrile symptoms commencing early yesterday; the redness of the skin last night. C.-A man, aged 30; parotid and submaxillary glands enormously swelled; copious salivation; ulceration of gums and palate; general febrile excitement. Got calomel by mistake for magnesia. D.-A man, aged 70; severe cough, with scanty and difficult expectoration; prolonged expirations; bronchial sounds; unnaturally clear percussion, and no respiratory murmur in large spaces of both sides of the chest; pulse 65. A similar attack has come on the last two winters. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. DR. BRADY. 1. The morbid influences that induce diseases of the zymotic class exhibit, in their physiological modes of action, remarkable analogies with medicinal poisons. State the principal points in which they agree, and the circumstances in which they chiefly differ. 2. On what fact is Stas's process for the detection of the alkaloids based? 3. Describe the method adopted by Graham and Hofmann for detecting strychnine in beer. 4. What are the means, medicinal or mechanical, most commonly employed for the purpose of procuring criminal abortion? 5. Certain changes occurring in dead bodies, in the progress of decomposition, may be mistaken for pathological alterations; describe the most important, and the mode of determining their real character. INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE. PROFESSOR LAW. 1. What is Nature's expedient for preventing the general contamination of the blood in cases of purulent phlebitis? 2. What are the pathological events that may occur in the course of phthisis pulmonalis to hasten its fatal termination? 3. What is Bizot's law with reference to the disease of arteries 4. In what cases are adhesions of serous membranes, the results of inflammation, injurious; and in what cases beneficial? 5. Upon what circumstance connected with pneumothorax will its duration depend? 6. What is the characteristic pathognomonic sign of facial paralysis? 7. What reasons are there for supposing that a relation of vicarious action exists between the lungs and liver? 8. What are the pathological conditions of the organs within the chest that will effect a permanent change in its external form? MIDWIFERY. DR. CHURCHILL. 1. State the diagnosis and treatment of face presentations. 2. Mention the special period of danger to the child in foot presen tations. 3. What treatment is to be adopted in rigidity of the os uteri ? 4. In case of imperforate or undilatable os uteri, what plan has been advised? 5. Mention the characteristic symptoms of rupture of the uterus. 6. In the latter accident, when the child has receded into the abdomen, would you recommend any operative interference? CHEMISTRY. DR. APJOHN. 1. If v be the volume of a gas at temperature t, and pressure p; what will it become if the temperature changes to t', and the pressure to p'? |