2. Identify and briefly describe the specimens labelled A, B, C, D, E, F.

3. Cut and mount sections to show as much as possible of the structure of the imbedded specimen labelled G. Draw and briefly describe your preparations.

CHEMISTRY.-PART I.

PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER.

N.B.-Candidates are instructed to show the full working of any question involving calculation, and to give equations for, as well as verbal descriptions of, chemical changes.

1. Calculate the weight of marble required for the production of 10 litres of carbon dioxide, measured at 17° C. and a pressure of 752 m.m. of mercury. Given that 1 gramme of hydrogen occupies 11.17 litres at 0° C. and 760 m.m.

2. Excess of barium chloride solution is added to a solution of silver sulphate, and the mixture is filtered. Of what does the residue on the filter consist; and what does the filtrate contain ? Calculate the weight of the precipitate, after washing and drying, if the original silver sulphate weigh 0.52 grammes. Given: Ag 108, Ba = 137.

3. Compare and contrast the metals of the alkalis with the metals of the alkaline earths, having regard to the metals themselves and to their oxides, hydroxides, and chief salts.

4. Give an account of the chemistry of iodine and its chief compounds.

5. Discuss fully the action of heat on the phosphoric acids and their salts.

6. Discuss and illustrate the general analogy between sulphur and oxygen in their compounds, and point out its limitations.

7. State the volume composition of each of the following, and describe experiments by which it may be proved :-(a) Steam, (b) hydrogen chloride, (c) ammonia.

CHEMISTRY.-PART I.

LABORATORY WORK.

The Board of Examiners.

Analyse qualitatively each of the substances marked respectively A, B, C, and submit a full written report of your experiments and results.

N.B.-No credit will be given for correct results unless supported by full and satisfactory evidence of the work done.

MATERIA MEDICA, MEDICAL BOTANY, AND ELEMENTARY THERAPEUTICS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. State what you know as to the actions of the chief anæsthetics in common use, the special applications of each, and the precautions to be observed in their administration.

2. Give an account of the physiological actions and therapeutical uses of the preparations of Arsenic.

3. State the source, composition, preparations, actions, and uses of Cantharides.

4. Classify the officinal Umbellifera, and give the chief botanical characters, preparations (with their doses), actions, and uses of Conium Maculatum.

5. State the doses of the following preparations:Tinctura Chloroformi et Morphine; Cocainæ Hydrochloras; Liquor Trinitrinæ; Picrotoxinum; Pilula Saponis Composita; Vinum Ipecacuanhæ; Extractum Cinchona Liquidum; Extractum Belladonnæ Alcoholicum; Pilula Ferri; Hydrargyri Perchloridum.

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE.

FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

All questions must be answered.

1. How do you determine dosage? Discuss the main modifying factors.

2. Describe the mode of action of (a) Mag. Sulph., (b) the mercurial salts, (c) chloral. Give officinal preparations and doses.

3. Discuss the therapeutic uses of (a) phosphorus, (b) the alkalies, (c) the nitrites.

4. Write out in full prescriptions suitable for cases of (a) bronchial catarrh, (b) acid dyspepsia, (c) renal congestion, giving reasons and expectations.

5. How is electricity used diagnostically?

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

All questions must be answered.

A.

1. Trace the course of the albuminoids through the system, and describe the results of their excessive

use.

2. How does cow's milk differ from human? Give a day's diet for a three-month-old bottle-fed infant.

3. Discuss the dietary of phthisis.

B.

1. Enumerate the common defects in waste and soil pipes, and state how they may be remedied.

2. Discuss the question of Vaccination as recommended by the Board of Public Health.

3. How is drinking water purified ?

SURGERY.

FIFTH YEAR.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe the causes and symptoms of simple transverse fracture of the patella. Give the treatment from the commencement.

2. Describe the symptoms of extravasation of urine into the male perinæum. Give the various causes, and the treatment of this affection.

3. What preliminary treatment of the patient would you recommend before the administration of chloroform? Mention the possible dangers attending complete surgical anesthesia, and give the precautions by which they may be prevented.