67. "From Shihor of Egypt unto the entering of Hemath." Describe accurately the positions of Shihor and Hemath. Why "the entering" of Hemath?

68. Why was the Ark brought to Obed-edom?

69. What is meant by-(ι) ἀν κινύραις ἀμασενὶθ τοῦ ἐνισχῦσαι; (2) νάβλαι καὶ κυμβάλοι ?

70. Explain by a note the passage: "Thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree."

71. Also: "I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another."

72. “He shall be my son, and I will be his father." What difference do some writers make in the scope of this passage and the parallel in 2 Samuel?

73. How many families of the twenty-four courses who returned from Babylon have the same names as those in David's time?

74. “All these were the sons to Heman,—τῷ ἀνακρουομένῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐν λογοις Θεοῦ ὑψῶσαι κέρας.” Give the different interpretations of these words.

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EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN

MEDICINE.

SPRING COMMENCEMENTS.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR STOKES.

1. Compare the right and left ventricle, and the right and left auricle, as to the frequency of occurrence of rupture from external violence. 2. Write prescriptions for the internal exhibition of the following remedies:

1. Extract of Stramonium.

II. Extract of Nux Vomica.
III. Extract of Belladonna.
IV. Strychnia.

v. Hydrocyanic Acid,

VI. Tobacco.

VII. Chloroform.

3. In what cases of paralysis is strychnia contra-indicated?

4. Has any physiological antidote been proposed for strychnia? 5. In galvano-puncture is any difference to be observed in the condition of the needles after a certain number of completions of the circuit ? 6. Describe Dr. Graves' operation for hepatic abscess, and state the grounds for its adoption.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR BANKS.

1. Compare Croup, Diphtherite, and Laryngismus stridulus. 2. Enumerate the varieties of Continued Fevers.

3. Compare Typhus and Typhoid, or Enteric Fever.

4. What treatment would you adopt in states of insomnia in Fever, and how would you treat the diarrhoea of Typhoid Fever? Write prescriptions in Latin, without using abbreviations, for any two therapeutic agents you may think expedient.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR LAW.

1. How many different kinds of softening of the brain are there?

2. Is there any surgical operation that has been followed by softening of the brain, and which has thus illustrated the nature of one kind of softening?

3. What diseases are attended with palpable discoloration of the skin? 4. What is Nature's provision to relieve the right ventricle of the heart from over-distension in case of obstruction in the course of the pulmonary circulation?

5. How does the blood of the vena portæ differ from other venous blood?

6. What disease of the heart is most frequently attended with intermitting pulse?

7. What are the diseases of the heart that most frequently produce disease of the brain?

8. What are the resulting diseases of the brain from cardiac disease?

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR M'DOWEL.

1. Mention the channels by which nutritive matter is introduced into the system.

2. State the composition of the chyle, and explain why it is sometimes transparent, and sometimes of a milky colour.

3. Give an account of the anatomy of the optic nerves; trace them from their cerebral connexions, and mention any anatomical peculiarities which they present in fishes, birds, and some cephalopods.

4. Describe the epiglottis, enumerating its uses, connexions, and relations to surrounding parts.

5. State the composition of the saliva; explain the nature of the process of insalivation; and describe the various ways in which this function is effected in different animals.

6. Mention the relations of the Arteria Innominata, and describe the steps of the operation for deligating that vessel.

SURGERY.

PROFESSOR SMITH.

1. Describe the operations of Abernethy and Sir A. Cooper for tying the external iliac artery.

2. Give an account of the symptoms and pathology of cephalæmatoma. 3. Enumerate the characters of congenital hernia cerebri.

4. Mention all the conditions which render the operation for fistula in ano improper.

5. Enumerate the causes of prolapsus ani. Describe the methods of treating the disease, and the mode of distinguishing it from intussusception.

MIDWIFERY.

PROFESSOR CHURCHILL.

1. Mention some of the causes of delay in the first stage of labour. 2. How are "spurious pains" to be distinguished from "true pains”? 3. Mention some of the cases requiring the operation of version.

4. Describe the treatment of retained placenta.

5. State the treatment for sore nipples.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

PROFESSOR BRADY.

1. Having obtained by Reinsch's process a metallic deposit on the copper, how would you determine that it was arsenic, or antimony, or mercury?

. 2. What are the tests for copper in solution?

3. What is the nature of the pigment mineral green, and how would you determine its composition ?

4. State what drugs are most frequently employed for procuring abortion criminally, and the mode in which you would account for the effects alleged to be produced by them in such cases.

5. What constitutes the validity, or admissibility as evidence, of a dying declaration?

MATERIA MEDICA.

PROFESSOR OSBORNE.

1. What is the cause of the red colour of rock salt?

2. The first effects perceived after taking hydriodate of potash?

3. The articles derived from the genus Piper?

4. The characteristics of genuine senna?

5. What is the difference between the antimonial powder of the present and of former Pharmacopoeias, and how may they be experimentally distinguished?

CHEMISTRY.

PROFESSOR APJOHN.

1. Describe and explain the mode of giving to a conductor a positive electric charge on the principle of induction.

2. Two methods are in use for determining the intensity of a galvanic current; what are they?

3. The ordinary galvanic combinations consist of two dissimilar metals and an acid. What, upon the theory of Volta, and what on that of Wollaston (the chemical theory), are the respective functions of the metals and the acid?

4. Explain the phenomena of dew and hoar frost, and the reason why dew does not form when the night is cloudy, or the atmosphere in motion. 5. Suppose you have a sufficient supply of boiling water, and of water at 50°, in what proportions must they be mixed so as to charge a 20-gallon bath with water at 212°?

6. Describe and explain the metallurgic operation by which the arsenious acid of commerce is obtained; the means by which arsenious may be converted into arsenic acid, and arsenic reduced to arsenious; and the liquid test by which solutions of the two acids are most readily distinguished from each other.

7. State the means of obtaining oxygen gas from bichromate of potash, and give the reactions which occur in the process.

8. What are the respective actions of iodine and of iodic acid on sulphurous acid? Enumerate also the ordinary hydracids, and specify those which cannot be obtained by the action of sulphuric acid on a salt composed of a metal and the electro-negative constituent of the hydracid.

9. Give the method of preparing the hydrosulphuret of ammonia of the Dublin Pharmacopoeia. State its exact composition, the change which it experiences by a short exposure to atmospheric air, and the action which, when added in excess, it exerts upon solutions of sulphate of copper and tartar emetic.

10. What are the reactions in virtue of which hydrocyanic acid is obtained when we distil a mixture of dilute sulphuric acid and ferrocyanide of potassium? Explain the ordinary method of determining the strength of hydrocyanic acid by means of nitrate of silver, and the volumetric process for solving the same problem with the same reagent which has been recently proposed by Liebig.

II. What are the three alcohols of which mention is made in the Dublin Pharmacopoeia; how is each obtained, and what are the acids which result from their oxidation?

12. Write the composition of cane sugar and of glucose, and state the methods, both chemical and optical, of distinguishing these varieties of sugar from each other.

13. Give a list of the so-called proteinic compounds; and state the means of extracting from them the protein of Mulder.

14. What, upon an average, is the per-centage of carbonic acid in expired air, and why, if we adopt the views of Valentine as to the method of its separation from the blood, should its volume be less (as is generally found to be the case) than that of the absorbed oxygen by which it is replaced?

15. What are the sources of kreatine and kreatinine?

Write the for

mula of each, and state the processes by which they may be separated from each other.

BOTANY.

PROFESSOR HARVEY.

1. State the chief characters by which Exogens are known from En

dogens.