SECOND EXAMINATION IN MEDICINE.

ANATOMY.

PROF. BIRMINGHAM; PROF. SYMINGTON; PROF. PYE.

1. Give the attachments, actions, and nerve-supply of the muscles that move the eyeball.

2. Describe fully the blood-vessels and ducts of the liver.

3. Describe the articular surfaces, and give the development of the following bones :-(a) astragalus, (b) femur.

PHYSIOLOGY.

PROF. CHARLES; PROF. COFFEY; PROF. THOMPSON.

1. (a) Describe the situation, structure, and origin of the concentric corpuscles of Hassall. Where else in the body are corpuscles similar to these found? Give diagrams.

(b) Give a diagram to show the minute structure of the medulla of the suprarenal capsule. Mention its chemical characters.

2. Describe two methods of determining the osmotic pressure of blood plasma and of urine in order to estimate the work done by the kidneys.

3. Write a full description of the mode by which you would determine-(a) the rise of temperature in a contracting muscle, and (b) the rate of propagation of the wave of contraction in muscle.

4. Describe the secondary waves which may appear on a sphygmographic tracing, and discuss the origin of each of

them.

5. How, and in what condition, are fats absorbed from the alimentary canal? Give the chemical composition of the three ordinary neutral fats.

6. Describe concisely a form of arrangement by which the amount of respiratory interchange of a small animal could be estimated. Illustrate your answer by a diagram.

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

[Special stress will be laid upon the written record of your work, and your attention is directed to the following points :

(a) Give a concise account of all the steps of the processes you employ, and of all the tests you use in searching for the different substances.

(b) If you find a metal capable of forming two series of compounds, ascertain, if possible, to which of these series the metal present in the substance you are examining belongs.

(c) In testing a solid, dry way tests, in addition to wet way tests, must be employed.

(d) In testing a solution, dry way tests should be employed in all cases where it is advisable to do so-in addition to liquid tests.

(e) Use confirmatory tests where it is possible to do so.

(f) At the end of your paper, give a statement of the constituents found in each solid or solution given you for examination.]

1. Detect three bases or metals in the solution marked 1. 2. Detect two acids or non-metals in the solution marked 2.

3. Detect one base or metal and one acid or non-metal in the solid marked 3.

THIRD EXAMINATION IN MEDICINE.

ANATOMY.

PROF. BIRMINGHAM; PROF. PYE; PROF. SYMINGTON.

1. Describe the anatomy of the Eustachian tube, adding an account of its development and that of the external auditory meatus.

2. Enumerate the structures formed from the Wolffian body and the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts in the male and female, respectively. Describe particularly the condition in the adult of any portions of these structures which become vestigial.

3. Give a complete description of the anatomy of the thoracic duct. State, also, with what groups of lymphatic glands the following parts are connected;-tongue, lips, rectum, scrotum, penis, and testicle.

MATERIA MEDICA.

PROFESSOR DEMPSEY; SIR WILLIAM WHITLA.

1. Enumerate with their doses the official preparations of Caffeine. Describe its physiological and therapeutic

actions.

2. Name the more important emetics. Describe their mode of administration, doses, action, and use.

8. Give a list of the B. P. preparations of Lime, and describe the action and uses of that drug.

4. Prescribe with full directions

(a) a draught to expel tapeworm;

(b) a sleeping draught in a case of Bright's disease; (c) a mixture containing Iron, Arsenic, and Quinine.

5. Enumerate the B. P. representatives of the order Solanaceæ, naming the preparations of each plant, the part used, and the dose and strength in each case.

6. Describe the pharmacological and therapeutical actions of the salts of silver.

7. What is Creosote?

How is it obtained? Describe

its pharmacological action and its therapeutical uses.

8. Describe the effects of an overdose of Atropine, and state how they should be treated.

PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR CHARLES; PROFESSOR COFFEY;
PROFESSOR THOMPSON.

1. (a) Give a concise account of the structural changes in the cerebral cortex after birth.

(b) Mention reasons for believing that impulses pass from the optic thalamus to the cortex of the cerebrum.

2. Describe the method of estimating the acidity of the urine.

8. Write a concise account of the lymphatics of the eyeball with special reference to their use in maintaining the mechanical conditions of the chambers requisite to the eye as a dioptric apparatus.

4. (a) Describe briefly the mode of demonstrating (1) the staircase' beat, and

(b) Write explanatory notes on the action of-atropin, pilocarpin, muscarin, and nicotin, respectively, on the heart of the frog.

5. Give a short account of the different forms of bacterial action which occur in the intestinal canal.

of the chief substances formed?

What becomes

6. Describe the development and fate of the visceral arches and clefts of the embryo.

PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY. [Time allowed for Viva Voce and Practical, THREE hours.] 1. Make a quantitative determination of the amount of urea in the solution I.

2. Examine the solution provided for the presence of a proteolytic ferment, and make a report on the results of your investigation.

3. Demonstrate the nerve-cells of the heart of the frog by the gold chloride method, and describe the method you follow.

4. Demonstrate the endothelium of the mesentery from the frog provided.

5. Make preparations to demonstrate crystals of hæmin.