Write a short commentary on the above Case; stating the nature of it, the cause of the lesion, your observations upon the immediate treatment as detailed, and what after treatment you would adopt under similar circumstances.

2. Write a prescription for a mixture, which will have a sedative and an astringent effect upon an infant aged five months, who is suffering from brisk diarrhoea, and the nervous irritation attendant upon cutting its first teeth.

3. Several methods have been adopted for the reposition of the funis when it has prolapsed during labour; describe eight of them.

4. What are the various causes of painful menstruation? Give the treatment of each form of the complaint.

5. Give a short account of the irregularities of head presentation; state which is the most frequent, which is the most serious, and which the least difficult.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the nervous influences by which the function of respiration is maintained.

2. Contrast the anterior and posterior surfaces of the iris. Describe the dissection necessary to expose the posterior surface of the iris, and mention the parts which necessarily must be removed in doing so.

3. What parts must be removed in order to expose the third ventricle of the brain? Mention the various parts which lie in and around this ventricle.

4. What opinions prevail at the present day as to the localization of the faculty of speech, and by what facts are these opinions supported? 5. Describe the course and relations of the median nerve, and give its distribution.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

DR. LAW.

1. What are the cerebral lesions on which hemiplegia most commonly depends?

2. What are the injuries resulting to distant organs from cardiac disease?

3. What are the different conditions of the muscles of a paralysed limb?—and what the different conditions of the cerebral lesion upon which these different conditions are supposed to depend?

4. Enumerate the signs of aneurism of the thoracic aorta, according to the portion of the artery that may be the seat of the aneurism.

5. Under what circumstances will the right ventricle of the heart become hypertrophied?

6. What appearances does a portion of brain in a condition of white softening present under the microscope?

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR TRAVERS.

1. From the blood, and the organs of circulation, in the dead body of an adult, what indications of the causes and mode of death may be deduced?

2. On the head of a dead subject there are wounds of the scalp, which you convince yourself must have been inflicted during life; by what circumstances will you be guided in attempting to ascertain whether such lesions should be referred to the active violence of blows? or had been accidentally suffered in falling, so that the head had struck against some solid object?

3. Death having been caused by a poison taken in by the mouth, which had proved fatal within twelve hours or less, and your examination of the body being made within an equal period subsequent, by what causes may your endeavour to detect it be frustrated?

4. What physical conditions may be misinterpreted into proofs of recent parturition?

5. State concisely the causes of the death of the foetus in utero, during the later months of gestation, and during birth.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN SURGERY.

DR. ADAMS.

1. Suppose a case of severe phagedænic ulcer of the glans penis and prepuce, in a patient æt. 25, presented to you, what constitutional and local treatment would you have recourse to, with a view to arrest the inflammation and spreading of the phagedænic sore ?

2. Describe the case of stricture of the rectum which has been observed to be situated at the upper extremity of this intestine, where it joins the colon; and contrast such a case with one of organic stricture situated lower down, called by some scirrho-contracted rectum.

The former case has been well exemplified by a report made of the case of the tragedian Talma; and the latter form of stricture of this intestine has been well illustrated by Baillie in his "Morbid Anatomy" (Plate IV., Fig. 1), and the symptoms and anatomical characters of it graphically detailed by the late Abraham Colles in the "Dublin Hospital Reports," Vol. V.

3. Suppose a case of strangulated femoral hernia, which you consider it necessary to treat by opening the sac, and returning the intestine, detail the method you would adopt in dividing the skin, the superficial fascia, and several subjacent thin layers; and say by what observations you may have been enabled to make, during this procedure, and subsequently, how you can render yourself assured that the strangulated intestine is exposed before you, and that the stricture may be divided, and the strangulated intestine replaced.

4. We meet in practice with two forms of chronic abscesses; both are cold, painless tumours, giving to the examiner a sense of fluctuation all over the tumour. One of these forms of chronic abscesses seems quite as isolated as an ordinary encysted tumour. The second form of chronic abscess is called by many writers a symptomatic abscess (a disease, as John Hunter would say, on a part, but not of a part"). Say how will you diagnose from each other the two forms of chronic abscess; and, having done so, what should be the difference in the prognosis you would give, and the treatment you would pursue in each case, respectively.

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5. Say what should be your prognosis as to the case called "Pott's gangrene" of the foot; and state what is the special treatment for this disease severally recommended in their writings on this subject by Perceval Pott, the Baron Dupuytren, and Sir Benjamin Brodie.

DR. BUTCHER.

1. Enumerate the circumstances that may call for the application of the trephine; and describe minutely the steps of the operation.

2. Describe minutely a case where the urethra has given way behind a close stricture, and the pathological conditions of the parts concerned. 3. Contrast with the foregoing case one where, say, a man falls with his legs across a beam, and ruptures the urethra; minutely describe the early appearances and symptoms, and likewise those superadded, if the case has not been seen for some hours.

4. Describe carefully the treatment to be pursued in the Questions Nos. 2 and 3, and give full explanation of the methods adopted in each. 5. Mention the different ways in which cancer attacks the penis, and the operation applicable in each case; and enumerate the diseases with which it may be confounded, with the diagnostic differences between each.

MR. WILSON.

1. Contrast conjunctival with sclerotic vascularity, and mention the special significance attaching to each.

2. Enumerate the various complications, terminations, and sequences of ulceration of the cornea. What are the causes of such ulceration?

3. Describe the symptoms, nature, and causes of ophthalmia neonatorum; and state the treatment to be adopted for the cure of the disease.

4. Describe the appearances and characteristic symptoms presented by an individual, aged 12, labouring under inherited syphilis. Mention the treatment to be adopted.

5. Describe acute iritis,-its causes, course, and terminations. State the treatment for the disease.

DR. R. W. SMITH.

1. What morbid condition of the system is frequently found associated with chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils ? What medicines have been recommended by Sir A. Cooper as being advantageous in this disease? What disease is chronic enlargement of the tonsils likely to induce? Mention the modes of treating the disease locally.

2. Describe the operations of Stafford, Symes, Maisonneuve, and Holt for the cure of stricture of the urethra. Mention Dupuytren's plan of treating the disease. Describe the mode of applying caustic to a stricture of the urethra.

3. Give a full description of pulmonary hectic, and contrast it with urinary hectic. Mention the peculiarities of cancerous and venereal hectic.

4. Contrast tetanus and hydrophobia. Mention the points of resemblance and difference between tetanus and cerebro-spinal arachnitis. What is generally the immediate cause of death in tetanus? How do the phenomena of the tetanic paroxysms aid us in forming a prognosis? 5. Enumerate the tumours that occur in the popliteal space. are the different forms of popliteal cysts?

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PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the course, and mention the relations and branches of the cervical stage of the facial artery.

2. Trace the fourth and sixth cerebral nerves from their origins to their terminations.

3. Describe the clavicle.

which are attached to it.

Mention its development, and the muscles

4. What parts must be removed in order to expose the entire of the flexor digitorum perforatus?

5. Trace the spermatic arteries to their termination.

6. Enumerate the fascia of the perineal region.

7. Describe the structure, appearance, connexions, and uses of the membrana tympani.

8. Enumerate and describe the ligamentous connexions of the fibula. 9. Mention the articulations of the cuboid and scaphoid bones, respectively.

10. The course, relations, and distribution of the obturator nerve?

PHYSICS.

MR. LESLIE.

1. Explain the method of making a mercurial thermometer; and state any uses to which it is applied in medicine.

2. What is the principle of a barometer?

If the height of a barometer is 30 inches when the temperature is 32° F., what will be its height when the temperature is 60° F. ?

3. Define specific gravity.

How would you proceed in order to obtain the specific gravity of a liquid by means of a specific gravity bottle; and what uses is this determination made subservient to in medicine?

4. What is the principle of a freezing mixture; and what readily available substances would you employ if such a mixture were required? 5. State the physical principle upon which Richardson's "anæsthetic spray producer'' depends; and mention any simple experiments by which it may be illustrated.

6. Mention any simple experiment to illustrate what is meant by the "heat of combustion." How does this development of heat account for the maintenance of the temperature of the human body?

7. How would you prepare a frog in order to repeat Galvani's celebrated experiment made to investigate the influence of electricity on the nervous excitability of animals?

8. What is the principle of the sulphate of mercury, and the chloride of silver batteries now generally adopted in the medical applications of electricity ?

9. What is the principle of the electro-magnetic machines of Clarke and Gaiffe, and to what uses are they applied in medicine?

10. It is generally stated that, in electrifying the muscles of the face, induction currents are to be preferred to the current of a battery; what is the reason of this?

MATERIA MEDICA.

DR. AQUILLA SMITH.

1. The preparation of pure animal charcoal, its use in pharmacy, and its dose as an antidote to a certain class of poisons to be specified?

2. The characters and tests of pure lime, and the quantity of lime in a fluid ounce of Liquor Calcis, and of Liquor Calcis Saccharatus?