EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF SURGERY.

LOGIC.

Same as for Degree of Doctor of Medicine.

SURGICAL ANATOMY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Comment on the motor area of the cerebral cortex.

2. Comment on the surgical anatomy of the palm of the hand.

3. Describe the superior aperture of the thorax, and give in order the structures passing through it.

4. Describe the surgical anatomy of club-foot.

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

. 1. Discuss minutely the meaning of locus minoris resistentiæ in relation to pyogenic microorganisms.

2. Describe the histology of the tubercular process in synovial membrane.

3. Describe the macroscopic and microscopic characters of cystic sarcoma and cystic carcinoma of the mammary gland.

4. Discuss the pathology of genu valgum.

SURGERY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe the various kinds of abscesses that occur in the neck. Give their diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment.

2. Describe the constitutional and local causes which sometimes delay or prevent union of simple fractures in the long bones. Give the treatment of these cases.

3. How would you treat free arterial hemorrhage from a deep incised wound in the neck near the angle of the lower jaw? Give your reasons for the course you would adopt.

SURGERY.

The Board of Examiners.

CASES FOR COMMENTARY.

1. A boy, aged 14, was attacked with constipation, nausea, and vomiting; there was a slight increase of temperature, with tenderness, pain, and swelling in the right iliac fossa. Under simple treatment these symptoms abated for a short time, and then returned with increased severity, accompanied with an initial rigor.

What was the most probable cause of these symptoms? Describe the disease, its symptoms, complications, and treatment.

2. A married woman, ætat. 46, of healthy appearance, who had borne and suckled several children, was sent to an hospital for operation. On examination the nipple of the right breast was seen to be retracted, and had been so for two years. The breast felt nodular, apparently from some induration of the lobules, but no distinct tumour could be detected; there was occasionally a watery discharge from the right nipple. The skin over the breast was freely movable; the mammary gland was also movable; no glands perceptible in the axilla.

What was the nature of this case, and how would you treat it? Give your reasons for the conclusions you arrive at.

3. A young lad was brought to an hospital who had received 18 hours previously a small punctured wound in the mid-dorsal region, about an inch from the mesial line. The wound could be traced to pass towards the spinal canal. It had been caused by a stab with a sharp-pointed blade of a narrow steel instrument. A clear watery fluid is seen escaping from the puncture, and has been escaping ever since the receipt of the injury; it has saturated his clothes. Give your diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of this case.

EXAMINATION FOR THE W. T. MOLLISON SCHOLARSHIP.

GERMAN.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Write an essay in German on "Der Kaiser."

2. Write a letter in German describing the Depression in Victoria.

3. Translate into German

(a) A great deal must be allowed to Pope for the age in which he lived, and not a little, I think, for the influence of Swift. In his own province he still stands unapproachably alone. If to be the greatest satirist of individual men, rather

(b)

than of human nature, if to be the highest expression which the life of the court and the ballroom has ever found in verse, if to have added more phrases to our language than any other but Shakspeare, if to have charmed four generations make a man a great poet-then he is one. He was the chief founder of an artificial style of writing, which in his hands was living and powerful, because he used it to express artificial modes of thinking and an artificial state of society. Measured by any high standard of imagination, he will be found wanting; tried by any test of wit, he is unrivalled.

Take, Madam, this poor book of song;
For tho' the faults were thick as dust
In vacant chambers, I could trust
Your kindness. May you rule us long,
And leave us rulers of your blood
As noble till the latest day!

May children of our children say,
"She wrought her people lasting good:
"Her court was pure; her life serene;

God gave her peace; her land reposed;
A thousand claims to reverence closed
In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen;
"And statesmen at her council met

Who knew the seasons when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet
"By shaping some august decree,

Which kept her throne unshaken still,
Broad-based upon her people's will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea."