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SECTION B.

PROFESSOR WHITLA.

5. Classify the extracts of the B. P., and give examples of each; and describe the process of obtaining an extract from a fresh plant.

6. What is the pharmacological and therapeutical action of tartarated antimony, and give dosage?

7. Write out a list of the ergot preparations, giving dose and strength of each.

8. Write a model prescription for a case of cardiac dropsy in an adult.

THE M.B., B.CH., AND B.A.O. DEGREES

EXAMINATION.

MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY.

FIRST PAPER.

SECTION A.

MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR LINDSAY; PROFESSOR LYNHAM; DR. O'CARROLL.

1. Discuss the differential diagnosis between a mediastinal tumour and aneurism.

2. Give brief outlines of treatment, with prescriptions, for

(a) general renal dropsy.

(b) general cardiac dropsy.

(c) an asthmatic paroxysm.

3. State the symptoms of relapsing fever, and give the differential diagnosis from typhus.

4. Describe some varieties of tremor, specifying the morbid conditions with which they are associated.

SECTION B.

PATHOLOGY.

PROFESSOR LORRAIN SMITH.

1. Describe the state of the blood in a surgical case in which the examination of the blood is an aid to diagnosis. 2. Give a pathological account of synovitis.

SECOND PAPER.

SECTION A.

MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR LINDSAY; PROFESSOR LYNHAM; DR. O'CARROLL.

1. What considerations would warrant you in regarding a cardiac murmur as functional (or hæmic) in origin?

2. State briefly the main guides to prognosis in acute croupous pneumonia.

3. Describe some varieties of arrhythmia, and mention the causes which may give rise to disturbance of the cardiac rhythm.

4. Describe the symptoms of a well-marked case scarlet fever.

SECTION B.

PATHOLOGY.

PROFESSOR E. J. McWEENEY.

1. Give an account of Bright's disease from the pathological standpoint.

2. What is toxæmia'? What well-known infective diseases exemplify this condition? Give a careful description of some one admittedly toxæmic condition, and describe how our recently acquired ætiological knowledge has been utilised therapeutically.

SURGERY.

SECTION A.

PROFESSOR HAYES.

1. Describe the minute changes which attend the process of repair in simple fracture of a long bone.

2. Enumerate the symptoms and conditions which would cause you to diagnose the existence of a renal calculus.

3. Supply all important particulars regarding the recognised forms or varieties of interstitial hernia.

SECTION B.

SIR THORNLEY STOKER.

4. Detail the treatment of impacted fracture of the neck of the femur in a patient at 65, of feeble habit, and with chronic bronchitis.

5. What are the urethral causes of extravasation of urine? Describe the condition, and detail its treatment.

6. Describe an ischio-rectal abscess, and the method of opening it, and mention the usual after-effect which may

occur.

OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLOGY,
AND OTOLOGY, MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE, AND SANITARY SCIENCE.*

A.

OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLOGY.

PROFESSOR SANDFORD; PROFESSOR WERNER.

1. Mention the ocular affections causing, or associated with, headache.

2. What is a 'perforating ulcer of the cornea'? Describe briefly this affection and its possible consequences.

3. Describe shortly the common causes, symptoms, and treatment of perforation of the membrane tympani.

B.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

PROFESSOR ROCHE.

4. Describe the symptoms, post-mortem appearances, and treatment of poisoning by sulphuric acid.

FOUR hours allowed for anwering the three Papers, A, B, C, given at this period.

5. Describe how you would fill in a lunacy certificate, giving an example.

6. How would you distinguish between a post-mortem stain and a bruise inflicted during life.

C.

SANITARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR PEARSON.

7. To what extent is formaldehyde useful as a disinfectant? and what is the method of employing it?

8. What are the diseases most likely to be conveyed by milk? and how does the milk become infected?

9. What is the ordinary amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere? and how may the amount in a room be determined?

PRACTICAL PATHOLOGY.

PROF. E. J. MO WEENEY; PROF. LORRAIN SMITH.

1. Test section A (liver) for any form of degeneration to which the organ is prone.

State your method and results, and leave illustrative preparations.

2. Briefly report on the microscopic constituents of the fluid marked B, leaving slides.

[N.B. Slovenly ill-mounted preparations, and those left without appended description, will not obtain marks].

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