4. Describe a series of experiments suitable for proving the laws of electrostatic induction.

5. State the laws of electrolysis.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

THE REGIUS PROFESSOR.

I. What are the conditions which render surgical interference justifiable in pus-secreting basic cavities of the lung?

2. A man suffers from dry, harsh, ringing cough; pain in chest, extending down the inside of the arm; left carotid and radial pulses absent; left pupil permanently contracted. What is the import of these symptoms?

3. Under what circumstances is sugar found in the urine, excluding diabetes?

4. What are the complications met with in diabetes, and what are the terminations of the disease?

5. What are the diseases sometimes taken for enteric fever ? and give the differential diagnosis.

DR. J. MAGEE FINNY.

1. Describe the symptoms and course of a case of locomotor ataxy. 2. What are the circumstances which would lead you to the opinion that a case of pneumonia is likely to end fatally?

3. Give the symptoms and treatment of a case of malignant scarlet fever.

4. Pus may be present in the urine in small or large quantities; how is its presence recognised, and what may be its source?

5. What are the varieties of alopecia?-how do you distinguish them ?-and how would you treat a case of alopecia areata ?

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE (INCLUDING PATHOLOGY).

DR. J. W. MOORE.

1. Given a case of phthisical hemoptysis-what is the probable source of the bleeding in the early and late stages, respectively, of the pulmonary disease?

2. Name the principal pathogenic forms of (a) "Micrococci," and (b) "Bacilli," which have been described up to the present.

3. In what different ways may peritonitis arise in Enteric Fever? 4. Define the three recognised varieties of Pneumonia, so as to indicate the anatomical seat and pathogenesis of each.

5. Sketch the life-history of the Trichina Spiralis.

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. Contrast the appearances of the external opening of a fistula in ano in a phthisical subject with those of the same disease in a patient free from tubercular disease. Indicate the treatment you would adopt in each case.

2. A young man, in good health, of sanguine temperament, is admitted to hospital after a fall from a scaffolding, having sustained fracture of the ribs without special complication; the ordinary bandages are applied. On the third day he becomes delirious, with constant restlessness; his muscles are constantly contracting, his eyes glistening, his skin covered with sweat; he has a quiet pulse, and no fever; he sees images floating in the air incessantly. What is his ailment, and what the treatment you would adopt?

3. Contrast syphilitic sarcocele of the testis with the secondary orchitis following gonorrhoea.

4. Describe the tumour known as ranula, and give the details of its treatment.

5. State the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of phlyctenular ophthalmia.

1. Give the dissection necessary to expose the radial artery, from the lower end of the radius to the point where it enters the palm.

2. Describe, with reference to the operation of excision of the elbowjoint and of fractures in this region, the mode of ossification of the upper

ends of the radius and ulna, and of the lower end of the humerus. Give also, approximately, the dates at which coalescence between these epiphyses and diaphyses takes place.

3. Describe the crural compartment of the femoral sheath.

4. The subject being in the lithotomy position, give the dissection necessary to expose the bulb of the penis.

5. Enumerate the various layers which enter into the constitution of the scalp above the level of the temporal ridge on each side, and explain how they are connected with each other and to the subjacent bone.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

1. Name and state the precise position of the various orifices through which blood enters the right auricle of the heart. Which of these openings are provided with valves ?

2. Give in detail the relations which exist between the abdominal and thoracic organs which lie upon different aspects of the diaphragm.

3. Two portions of the small intestine, taken respectively from the duodenum and the lower end of the ileum, are placed before you; detail the features which would enable you to distinguish the one from the other.

4. Name the parts which are observed within the limits of the interpeduncular space of the base of the brain.

5. Enumerate the various channels which carry blood to the cervical part of the spinal cord.

1. What drugs have been found most beneficial in cases of neuralgia of the fifth nerve? Write a prescription to include one of them.

2. State the principal dangers attendant on the inhalation of chloroform, with their appropriate remedies.

3. What are the best methods of checking the night-sweats of phthisis? Write a suitable prescription.

4. Give examples of striking differences in the action of drugs when administered-(a) in small, (b) in large doses.

5. What effect have large doses of alcohol on the animal temperature, and how do you explain it ?

1. Describe the various cases of labour in which you would consider delivery by forceps to be requisite.

2. What are the premonitory symptoms, the exciting causes, and the methods of treatment of puerperal eclampsia ?

3. What are the causes of delay met with during the third stage of labour? What treatment would you adopt for each ?

4. Describe the different plans of conducting labour when there is hæmorrhage in consequence of placenta previa.

5. Give a short description of the different varieties of uterine fibroid tumours.

1. What inferences are deducible from the presence of cadaveric rigidity? and by what circumstances is that condition liable to be influenced ?

2. On what characters will you rely for distinguishing the effects of a narcotic poison from those of apoplexy, the subject still living?

3. A new-born child, being found exposed, and already dead, but free from putrefactive change, infanticide is suspected. There is no visible wound, or other trace of injury. You are required to determine whether it had been born dead, or had survived its birth; and, if it had so survived, to what cause its death should be attributed.

4. Caius Balatro, being accused of crime, and his advocate having alleged insanity in bar of procedure, you may be called on to decide whether the condition of mental incapacity be in such case real, or merely feigned, for the purpose and with the intent of baffling justice. By what will your judgment be decided for whichever alternative you prefer?

5. In the examination of wounds on the dead body of an adult, to what will you direct your attention besides the extent and importance of the injuries?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN

SURGERY.

SURGERY.

COLLES.

MR.

1. A child endeavours to drink boiling water from the spout of a kettle; what are the appearances of the parts injured, and the symptoms produced?

2. In what different forms may we have cysts in the female breast? 3. In fracture of the tibia, with displacement of the fragments, what is the direction of the displacement in general?

4. What would be your treatment of hæmorrhoidal tumours of the rectum if a patient objected to operation ?

5. If a popliteal aneurism be neglected, what injury may it cause to the parts surrounding it?

DR E. H. BENNETT.

1. Mention the signs and symptoms which would lead you to diagnose rupture of the bladder from injury. In doubt, or, again, the diagnosis having been made, how would you treat the case ?

2. State the circumstances under which you would adopt the operation of Antyllus in the treatment of aneurism; and state the methods which have been adopted for the control of hæmorrhage during its performance.

3. Give in detail the diagnosis between hernia virilis and simple vaginal hydrocele.

4. What are the varieties of simple fracture of the scapula? State the method you would adopt to determine the existence of any variety,

5. You are called on to treat a child suffering from croup; state the grounds on which you would urge the immediate performance of tracheotomy.

1. Describe the features of the ordinary pathological subluxation of the knee-joint.