SURGERY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe the course, symptoms, and the complications that may occur, of a case of tubercular spondylitis of the lower dorsal region in a child. Describe the treatment you would adopt. 2. You are asked to remove a large sebaceous tumour from the head of a middle-aged man. What preliminary precautions would you take? Describe the preparation of the patient, and the operation in detail. 3. Discuss briefly the conditions due to injury for which the operation of trephining the skull may be required. 4. What are the common complications in cases of broken ribs? How would you treat them? 5. A woman of 30 has had a small irreducible femoral hernia for several years. The tumour is not much larger than it was 48 hours ago, when symptoms of strangulation set in. Describe (a) the signs and symptoms of strangulation, (b) the treatment to be adopted, (c) the details of an operation to relieve the constriction, (d) the appearances that would probably present themselves. 6. Describe the signs of dislocations of the femur backwards and upwards. N OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe the management of Anaesthetics and sedatives in labour; and give the conditions for which they are used respectively. 2. Give the differential diagnosis of Pregnancy. 3. Give the causes and treatment of Dysmenorrhoea. 4. What are the conditions, causes, and treatment of the so-called Granular os? 5. Describe the causes of mortality in hand-fed children. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe the succession of signs and symptoms in the downward course of a case of mitral regurgitation. 2. Discuss the chief points in the differential diagnosis of pleurisy with effusion. 3. Give an account of the treatment of tubular nephritis in its various stages. 4. What are the chief conditions in which jaundice is a prominent symptom? 5. Describe the treatment of chronic constipation, both medicinal and dietetic. 6. Discuss the symptoms and diagnosis of tumour of the brain, both as to its actual presence and probable seat. FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe the signs of death, and say which of them is regarded as the most certain. 2. What is understood severally by mechanical death and dynamical death, and what are the five forms in which dynamical death presents itself? 3. Into how many classes are weapons divided? Describe them briefly. 4. What are the appearances found severally in the bodies of those hanged, strangled, or throttled? 5. Describe a case of general paralysis of the insane, giving the early symptoms, the symptoms in the advanced stage, and the necroscopic appearances. 6. What are the points of differentiation between Amentia and Dementia ? 7. What are the poisons usually selected for chronic irritant poisoning, what are the symptoms they severally occasion, and in what particulars do the toxic phenomena resemble those arising from enteric disease? HONOUR EXAMINATION, OCTOBER, 1895. GREEK.—PART I. (TRANSLATION.) The Board of Examiners. 1. Translate, with brief notes in the margin wherever points of grammar or meaning require them(α) δόκιμος δ' οὔτις ὑποστὰς μεγάλῳ ῥεύματι φωτῶν ἐχυροῖς ἕρκεσιν εἴργειν ἄμαχον κῦμα θαλάσσας ἀπρόσοιστος γὰρ ὁ Περσῶν στρατὸς ἀλκίφρων τε λαός. δολόμητιν δ' ἀπάταν θεοῦ τίς ἀνὴρ θνατὸς ἀλύξει; τίς ὁ κραιπνῷ ποδὶ πηδήματος εὐπετέος ἀνάσσων; Φιλόφρων γὰρ παρασαίνει βροτὸν εἰς ἄρκυας ἄτα, τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὲρ θνατὸν ἀλύξαντα φυγεῖν. (6) εὖ τόδ ̓ ἴσθι, γῆς ἄνασσα τῆσδε, μὴ σὲ δὶς φράσαι μήτ' ἔπος μήτ' ἔργον ὧν ἂν δύναμις ἡγεῖσθαι θέλῃ. ὀτοτοτοῖ, φίλων (c) (α) ἁλίδονα σώματα πολυβαφῆ νῆσός τις ἐστὶ πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων |