2. Describe an abscess of the lachrymal sac, and its treatment. Should it be advisable to open the abscess, state minutely how this should be done; and describe the subsequent treatment.

3. Define mydriasis; state its causes and treatment.

4. Enumerate the various operations for cataract, and define the circumstances which should be taken into consideration in the selection of one or other operation.

5. What treatment should be adopted in a case where the left eye-ball was quite blind and partially collapsed from long-standing chorido-iritis, and where the right eye, having suffered from sympathetic ophthalmia, presented closed pupil and superficial opacity of the crystalline lens, but with good perception of light?

MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION.

ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Contrast in extent and in use the external and the internal cerebral pia mater.

2. Through what openings on the surface of the brain does the pia mater reach the interior, and what are the boundaries of these openings?

3. Describe the intra-ocular apparatus for effecting accommodation. 4. Describe the Eustachian tube. Where are its openings to be found? How is its free extremity influenced by muscular action?

5. The course and relations of the cervical stage of the vertebral artery? 6. The attachments, relations, and uses of the occipito-axoid ligaments? 7. Enumerate the regions into which the abdominal wall is divided. Mention the viscera or parts of viscera which correspond to each.

8. The number and limits of the synovial cavities connected with the bones of the wrist and of the carpus.

9. Mention the parts which lie behind the triangular ligament of the urethra, and their relative positions.

10. Mention the source of the nervous supply of each of the following muscles-Obturator externus, Obturator internus, Gemellus superior, Gemellus inferior, Pectineus, Gracilis, Sartorius, Tensor vaginæ femoris.

HUMAN ANATOMY.

DR. BENNETT.

1. Name the structures which form the septum nasi, and the vessels and nerves which are contained in it.

2. What are the vessels which the ductus venosus unites ? State its relations and size as compared with the vessels connected by it.

3. Give accurately the attachments and relations of the tensor vaginæ femoris muscle, stating its nerve supply and action.

4. What dissection is necessary to expose the thoracic duct midway in its course?

5. State the connexions of the great inferior longitudinal commissure of the cerebrum.

6. Describe the course, relations, and distribution of the right inferior laryngeal nerve.

7. Trace the course of the occipital artery from its origin to its entrance into the scalp.

8. Enumerate the ligaments attached to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx.

9. Describe the development, mode of articulation, and ligaments of the os calcis.

10. Enumerate the burse which occur in the neighbourhood of the knee-joint, classifying them under the following heads:-1st, those that constantly communicate with the joint; 2ndly, those that usually do so; and 3rdly, those that do not communicate with it.

COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Enumerate the orders of the Scolecida, with examples of each. Distinguish those that are parasitic in man.

2. Describe the masticatory organs in Echinus, Crustacea, and Arachnidans.

3. To what classes do you refer Polyzoa, Crinoidea, Gephyrea, Gordiaceæ, Ascidia?

4. Describe the Odontophore. What animals are grouped together by Huxley from possessing this organ?

5. What are the principal forms which the scales of fishes assume? Describe them, and give examples of the fishes in which each is met with.

6. Describe the various forms under which the air bladder is met with. What are its usual contents? In what class does it become the organ of which it is the homologue?

7. How are Artiodactyla subdivided by Owen? Give examples of each.

8. Describe the stomach of a camel.

9. Contrast the skull of a ruminant with that of a carnivore.

10. The dental formula of the horse, cow, lion, and hog.

MATERIA MEDICA.

DR. AQUILLA SMITH.

1. What preparations of Silver are in the Pharmacopoeia? For what purposes, and in what doses, would you prescribe them?

2. Give the composition of Pilula Assafœtidæ Composita, and the proportion of each ingredient.

3. Why is Confectio Rosa Caninæ employed instead of Confectio Rosa Gallicæ in making Pilula Quiniæ ?

4. Give the composition of Mistura Ferri Aromatica, and of Mistura Ferri Composita; and state the form in which Iron exists in each preparation, and the dose of each.

5. Give the botanical names of the plants which yield Aconitia, Atropia, Beberia, and Veratria; the characters and dose of Sulphas Beberiæ; and how is Veratria readily distinguished from the other alkaloids?

6. What is the relative proportion of Bark in the following preparations of Cinchona flava :-Infusum, Decoctum, Tinctura, and Extractum liquidum?

7. What is the characteristic test for the presence of Quinia in Sulphas Quiniæ, and the mode of employing the test?

8. Describe the physiological action of a full dose of opium; and give the treatment for poisoning by opium.

9. Give the characters of Copaiba, its therapeutic uses, average dose, and modes of administration.

10. Write a prescription for a mixture to allay vomiting not depending on organic disease.

PHYSICS.

MR. LESLIE.

1. State the methods which have been used for determining the temperature of animals, and mention the most remarkable results which have been obtained.

2. How has the quantity of heat produced by animals in a given time been found?

Consider the question-What is the source of animal heat?

3. What methods have been used to determine the heat produced by chemical actions, such as the combustion of carbon or hydrogen; and what results have been obtained?

4. State the circumstances upon which a change of state of a substance chiefly depends; and mention the experiments which establish the result. What is surfusion?

5. What are the laws of vapours, and of mixtures of gases and vapours; and how are they established?

6. Describe Melloni's apparatus for the examination of the phenomena of radiant heat; and state some remarkable results obtained by means of it. 7. What is meant by polarisation in a single-fluid voltaic battery? State the chemical actions in the double-fluid batteries in which polarisation is avoided.

8. Explain the construction of the chief thermo-electric piles which have been used; and mention the principal applications of them.

9. State fully the nature of an induction coil, and explain the principles upon which its action depends.

10. Explain the construction of Clarke's electro-magnetic machine, and the principles involved it. Mention any modifications of it used for medical purposes.

CHEMISTRY.

DR. APJOHN.

1. Give the successive processes and reactions by which arsenic acid may be converted into orpiment, and arsenious acid into the ammonio-magnesian arseniate.

2. Hydrogen may be developed by the action of liquor potassæ on aluminum. Explain its production, and point out the bearing of such experiment on a question which sometimes arises in toxicological investigations.

3. What is Nessler's test, how is it made, and what is the composition of the product which is formed when it is brought into contact with a solution of an ammoniacal salt? Describe also Wanklyn's method of applying this test as a means of determining the nature and amount of the azotized organic matters very generally present in water.

4. A measured ounce of liquor arsenicalis of specific gravity 1.0I was found capable of decolorizing 887.5 grain measures of the volumetric solution of iodine. Explain how this experiment was made, and calculate the percentage of arsenious anhydride in the liquor.

5. How is the solution of ammonio-sulphate of copper made, and what is its composition? Explain also how it may be used in the volumetric estimation of acids.

6. A solution of corrosive sublimate treated with an excess of liquor ammoniæ gives a white precipitate, and, if digested with a solution of formiate of sodium, gives a precipitate of same colour. What is the nature of each of these products, and how is their formation explained?

7. Give the theory of the processes for preparing chloral and chloroform, and specify the changes which these compounds experience when acted upon by an alcoholic solution of potash.

8. The amount of fibrin and of corpuscles in the blood may be exactly determined by the method of Andral and Gavarret. Give an explanation of their process.

9. Condy's liquid loses its colour when added to an acidulated solution of a ferrous salt, or to a mixed solution of sulphuric and oxalic acid. What is the reaction which occurs in each of these cases?

ro. Describe and explain Liebig's method of estimating the urea and the chlorides of urine. Also that proposed by Bunsen for accomplishing the former object.

DR. WRIGHT.

1. Enumerate the different forms of fibrous vessels met with in plants. 2. Give some account of the different appendages to the Epidermis. 3. Mention some natural families of plants, both Phanerogamous and Cryptogamous, with fistular stems.

4. Describe in detail the chief forms of Stipules met with.

5. What form does the perisperm or albumen assume in the seeds of coffee, wheat, poppy, cocoa-nut, castor oil, mallow ?

6. Give the system adopted in "Henfrey" for dividing the vegetable kingdom into sub-kingdoms, &c.

7. Mention some of the more important genera of the natural family Ranunculaceæ.

8. Describe in detail the following fruits: Bacca, Pomum, Drupe, and Cremocarp.

9. Give examples of caducous, deciduous, persistent, accrescent, and marcescent calyces.

10. Give instances of some of the most remarkable forms assumed by the Peduncle.

PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Enumerate the structures of which the scalp is composed, and the blood vessels which are distributed to them.

2. Mention the objects seen on the upper surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone.

3. Describe the temporal bone at birth, and contrast it with the bone in the adult.

4. What parts pass through the foramen magnum?

5. The boundaries of the inguinal canal ?

6. Describe the anterior annular ligament of the wrist-its attachments and relations.

7. The course and distribution of the obturator nerve?

8. Describe the arrangement of the fibres which compose the anterior part of the capsular ligament of the hip-joint.