2. A certain solid weighs 84 grammes, and a certain specific gravity bottle full of distilled water weighs 316 grammes; but after the solid has been introduced into the bottle, it then weighs 358 grammes: find the specific gravity of the solid.

3. Describe any kind of calorimeter.

4. What is meant by electrolysis, and how is the process of electroplating conducted?

5. How are galvanometers made, and what are they used for ?

DR. EMERSON REYNOLDS.

CHEMISTRY.

1. Required 112 cubic centimeters of hydrogen gas at o° C. and 760 m. m.: find the weights of zinc and sulphuric acid that must be used in its preparation.

2. How is ammonia gas prepared? Explain the process by an equation, and calculate the volume that 34 centigrams weight of the gas should occupy at 0° C. and 760 m. m.

3. Explain the method usually followed in the preparation of potassium iodide. How would you test for the salt in a sample of urine?

4. What do you understand by the terms "temporary" and "permanent" hardness of water? Explain Clarke's process for softening hard

water.

5. Write the formula of urea, and explain the action of mercuric nitrate or sodium hypobromite on its solution.

(Atomic weights-Zn-65, S=32, 0=16, H=1, N = 14, Cl= 35.5.)

1. With the materials in your compartment prepare some solution of Ammonium Acetate for use as a diaphoretic.

2. A case of poisoning by white arsenic has occurred: prepare some moist Ferric Hydrate for use as an antidote.

3. Box No. 3 contains a salt supposed to have caused symptoms of poisoning: completely identify the compound.

4. Box No. 4 contains an alkaloid: identify it.

5. Identify the deposit in the sample of urine contained in bottle 5.

6. Bottle No. 6 contains Fowler's solution: is the sample of correct Pharmacopoeial strength, i. e. four grains in each fluid ounce ?

BOTANY.

DR. E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT.

1. Describe the systems of tissue known as epidermal, foundation, and fibro-vascular.

2. Describe the cells and their contents to be met with in a section through a ripe potato tuber.

3. Write out a definition of a phyllome.

4. Name some of the more important plants among the Solanaceæ.

5. Describe the parts of the flower in the Opium Poppy.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN
MEDICINE.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

THE REGIUS

PROFESSOR.

1. What are the most remarkable differences between Enteric Fever in the child and the adult ?

2. Contrast the symptoms resulting from lesions of the right hemisphere of the brain with those caused by lesions of the left.

3. What is the incubation period of Smallpox, Scarlatina, Measles, Typhus and Enteric Fever, and how is each supposed to be propagated ? 4. What is the cardiac lesion which is a frequent accompaniment of chronic Bright's Disease?

5. What are the diseases in the course of which Hæmaturia may occur-its relative significance and treatment?

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

DR. FINNY.

1. Describe a case of Bulbar Paralysis, and give its differential diagnosis.

2. Give the symptoms and treatment of Diaphragmatic Pleurisy.

3. What are the symptoms and physical signs usually present in a case of Mitral Stenosis?

4. Describe accurately the treatment you would adopt in a case of acute Catarrhal Gastritis in an infant six months old.

5. Give the differential diagnosis of Lupus. What line of treatment would you adopt?

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE (INCLUDING PATHOLOGY).

DR. DUFFEY.

1. Define the following terms as applied to the pulse, and explain their causation and significance:- Irregular, intermittent, delayed, dicrotic, and venous.

2. Give the characteristic appearances of hereditary osseous syphilis. 3. Assign the pathological cause of herpes zoster.

4. Fill in on accompanying form a representation of the typical range of temperature, pulse, and respiration, in a severe case of acute uncomplicated croupous pneumonia, from its commencement to its termination in convalescence.

5. What is the nature of the changes in the bones in rickets?

6. What reasons are assigned for the occurrence of fatty liver in cases of phthisis?

PHYSIOLOGY.

DR. PURSER.

1. Describe the microscopic appearances of recently-drawn human blood.

2. On what class of alimentary substances does saliva act, and what change is induced in them by the action of saliva ?

3. Enumerate the principal constituents of human urine.

4. What are the respective functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves?

5. What is the reflex arc by which the pupil of the eye is caused to contract when light falls on the retina?

ANATOMY.

DR. MACALISTER.

1. Describe the components and relations of the roots of the lungs, specifying particularly their relation to the skeleton of the thorax.

2. Give an account of the structure and distribution of Peyer's glands.

3. What is the exact position, and what the relations, of the ovary? Under what circumstances does its position vary ?.

4. Describe the different structures which combine to make up the corpus striatum cerebri.

5. What are the vertebral and vascular relations of the pancreas?

SURGERY.

DR. E. H. BENNETT.

1. State the diagnosis of renal calculus, and mention the indications for the operation of nephrectomy.

2. What are the circumstances that would induce you to recommend excision of the eyeball? Give the details of the operative proceeding which you would adopt in cases in which the cause demanding operation is intraocular.

3. A young healthy man, carrying a sack of grain from a ship to the quay, slips and falls astride on the plank, which has turned on its edge as he slipped. He is brought to hospital in great pain; straining to empty the bladder, but unable to do so; blood in some quantity has flowed from the urethra, but now flows only in drops, except when a catheter is introduced into the urethra, when it flows rapidly. Ordinary instruments fail to pass into the bladder.

State your diagnosis, and give the treatment you would adopt, and your prognosis.

4. State the circumstances under which fracture of the clavicle and dislocation of its sternal extremity are difficult of diagnosis. Give the details on which you would rely to establish the diagnosis, and the value in practice of its establishment.

5. Mention the symptoms of irritable ulcer of the anus, and the methods of treatment recommended by Boyer and Recamier for the disease.

THERAPEUTICS.

DR. WALTER G. SMITH.

1. What are the actions of rhubarb in small and in large doses ? Enumerate its preparations, and give their doses.

2. Name the officinal compounds of lead. they employed externally and internally?

For what purposes are

3. Therapeutic uses of hypophosphites? How would you distinguish between the two officinal salts ?

4. Mention the secondary actions of emetics, and explain them physiologically.

5. What do you mean by a refrigerant? Write a prescription for an effervescing draught.

MIDWIFERY.

DR. KIRKPATRICK.

1. Describe the diagnostic characters of the different tumours that may be met with protruding from the vulva.

2. What symptoms would retroversion of the gravid uterus give rise to; at what period of pregnancy is it likely to occur; and how would you treat it?

3. Describe the management of the delivery in a case of breech presentation.

4. Mention the different conditions of the uterus which most frequently occasion menorrhagia.

5. How would you treat post partum hæmorrhage ?

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. In your examination of wounds on the dead body, to what objects should you direct your attention? and generally what conclusions might you hope to establish by your investigation?

2. In a case of acute poisoning by a soluble salt of lead, what would be the symptoms, and the appropriate treatment?

3. By what causes not implying any criminal responsibility, may the life of the unborn fatus be extinguished during utero-gestation, or in parturition?

4. By what will you be guided in referring the state of coma to its cause, whether apoplexy, narcotism, or external violence?

5. On behalf of Titius, proved to have committed a crime the penalty for which is death, insanity having been pleaded in bar, you are required to give your opinion as to whether the alleged mental incapacity that would rightly exempt from punishment did in this case really exist. You will recollect that maniacal symptoms may be simulated by an artful impostor having the most urgent of motives for deception. What precautions would you therefore deem it necessary to take?-and what circumstances, other than those observable in the criminal's aspect and speech, would you consider in forming your judgment? You will avoid the too common error of assuming that as the impulse to commit the crime had not been controlled, it must therefore have been incontrollable.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN

SURGERY.

MR.

SURGERY.

COLLES.

1. Give the symptoms and appearances said to indicate fracture through the upper epiphysis of the humerus.

2. A wound of the brachial artery may give rise to an ordinary aneurism, or an aneurismal varix. What is the distinction between them?

3. What would be your treatment in a case in which you suspect a ruptured urethra, and what circumstances would influence your treat

ment?

4. Mention in the order of frequency the situations of strictures in cases of strangulated inguinal hernia.

5. What methods have been recommended for the removal of nasopharyngeal polypus ?