THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of Infantile Paralysis.

2. Give an account of the causes, symptoms, and modes of termination of Pneumothorax.

3. Describe the treatment of cases of Mitral disease, when there is failure of compensation.

4. What are the chief conditions leading to the production of Albuminuria? Give a description of

the most reliable tests for albumen for ordinary clinical purposes.

5. Give an account of the treatment of dysentery in its various stages.

6. Discuss the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of Urticaria.

FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What chemical changes are understood to take place in the production of adipocere, and what are the conditions which favour its production?

2. What are the signs of live birth, and what objections have been brought against the sufficiency of the hydrostatic test?

3. Describe the experience of a man dying of absolute starvation, and detail the appearances likely to

be found after death.

4. In the examination of a woman believed to have recently given birth to a mature child, what are the indications which would enable you to give an opinion confirmatory of such belief?

5. How far does the influence of age, occupation, or habits of life operate in the causation of insanity?

6. Define the duties of a medical referee in life-insurance, specifying particularly the danger, to the proposer, of omitting information.

7. Mention six poisonous plants which, either growing wild or cultivated in gardens in this colony, may serve as the occasion for treatment of poisoning, and mention severally the symptoms they produce.

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EXAMINATION FOR THE WYSELASKIE SCHOLARSHIP.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

FIRST PAPer.

Professor Elkington.

Write a careful Essay on each of the following subjects. 1. The law of Evolution, and its applicability to social phenomena.

2. The definition and the scope of Political Economy. 3. The logical method of Sociology.

4. Civilization as influenced by physical causes.

5. Civilization as influenced by custom.

6. Civilization as influenced by collective ownership.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

SECOND PAPER.

Professor Elkington.

1. Discuss the difficulties, theoretical and practical, attendant upon co-operative production, and consider its prospects in England and in Victoria respectively.

2. If it be true that man is a competitive animal, how is the popular quarrel with industrial competition to be explained?

3. Indicate the leading elements discernible in the progress of the working classes during the last fifty years in Great Britain.

4. What are the chief causes of the rapid growth of population and wealth in the British Empire during the last century?

5. Consider carefully what is meant in London by the "Money Market."

6. What conditions must be satisfied in order that a bargain may be concluded between two traders, each of whom is pursuing his own interest exclusively?

7. Comment upon Adam Smith's dictum that things are dear simply in proportion to the mere labour which it has cost to produce them.

8. What are the principal agencies by which capital is conveyed from one employment to another?

9. State and exemplify the principal rules of historical evidence.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

THIRD PAPER.

Professor Elkington.

1. Consider the argument that protective duties are paid by the foreign producer, and thus a double gain is secured by the protecting country.

2. Illustrate the causes and the different stages of a financial crisis by special reference to any one of the well-marked crises of the present century.

3. Illustrate the changes in prices due to great augmentations in the supply of the precious metals. What are the chief artificial substitutes for the precious metals as a medium of exchange?

4. Trace the history of the principal treaties of commerce between Great Britain and France.

5. What are the main points to be considered in endeavouring to ascertain the real wages of an occupation at any given time and place?

6. Shew the relation of the Corn Laws to the Mercantile System, and trace their later history and working in Great Britain.

7. Give an account of the main objects of English factory legislation, and of the principal measures by which it has been sought to attain those objects.