SURGERY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe in detail your treatment of a case of strangulated inguinal hernia in an adult. State how you would deal with every condition you might find. 2. Describe simple fractures of the radius and their treatment. 3. Discuss the symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis of Tubercular Peritonitis. 4. Describe the causes and treatment of acute inflammation of the inguinal lymphatic glands. 5. Contrast the symptoms of Concussion and of Compression of the Brain. OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. The Board of Examiners. 1. What are the causes, effects, and management of prolonged first stage of labour? 2. Give the causes, symptoms, and treatment of post partum hæmorrhage. 3. Give the signs and treatment of Polypus of the Uterus. 4. Give the differential diagnosis, complications, and treatment of Retroflexion of the Uterus. 5. What are the causes on the part of the mother and child which prevent suckling, and what is the treatment? THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 1. Describe the usual symptoms and course of a case of aneurism of the first portion of the thoracic aorta. 2. Give a description of the causes, modes of termination, and treatment of acute pleurisy. 3. State what are the chief causes leading to the production of jaundice, with the indications for treatment. 4. Detail the points to be attended to in the differential diagnosis of small-pox and chicken-pox. 5. Contrast the symptoms, and discuss the diagnosis of disseminated sclerosis and paralysis agitans. 6. Describe, in detail, the management, including medicinal treatment, of a case of granular kidney. Prescriptions to be written in full. FF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Detail the external phenomena of putrefaction, severally at the end of one week, one month, and three months after death, the body being above ground, and the temperature not higher than 70° of Fahrenheit. 2. What are the signs of recent violation in the child and in the adult woman; and what possible errors may be committed in connection with alleged criminal outrages upon young children? 3. Describe the difference between ecchymosis, pseudoecchymosis, and hypostasis. 4. What are the signs of recent delivery, both in the living and the dead subject? 5. What are the necroscopic appearances in the several kinds of insanity? 6. Mention six poisons which occasion rapid death, and state what is the smallest fatal dose of each. EXAMINATION FOR THE SHAKSPEARE SCHOLARSHIP. FIRST PAPER. The Board of Examiners. SPECIAL PLAYS. 1. The Comedy of Errors is a farce rather than a comedy. Criticise this statement. 2. What evidence is there for the position of The Comedy of Errors in the order of Shakspeare's plays, and what for that of Cymbeline? 3. Comment on the following in The Comedy of Errors: (a) The offence of gæon. (b) The anachronisms in the play. (c) (d) "Armadoes of caracks." "Stigmatical in making." 4. Why has the play Richard the Third been compared to the plays of Christopher Marlowe ? Answer fully. 5. Critics have found that parts of Third are by an inferior hand. have they selected in proof? Richard the 6. Whence comes the often-quoted line—“ Off with his head! so much for Buckingham"? 7. Describe the four female characters in Richard the Third, and show whether they are natural. 8. Dr. Johnson condemns Cymbeline, charging its fiction with folly, its conduct with absurdity, its events with impossibility. Criticise this view. 9. What is your judgment on the character of Posthumus, of Cloten, and of Iachimo? 10. Comment on the following lines from Cymbeline:A glass that feated them. I did atone my countryman and you. She is alone th' Arabian bird. The gods made you Unlike all others, chaffless. A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth, A pantler. It is a basilisk unto mine eye. |