How do private

6. Enumerate the advantages of a public abattoir. slaughter-houses in dense cities cause nuisance to the public health? should dogs be not allowed access to slaughter-houses?

Why

7. Briefly describe the principles of disinfection, and state why the use of steam is preferable to that of hot air in the disinfection of clothing.

1. Name the diseases against which Preventive Inoculation has been practised with benefit in man. Give the rationale of the methods employed for different infections. Describe fully the effects of Vaccination against small-pox.

2. Describe a case of Peripheral Neuritis, giving the pathology, etiology, and diagnosis of this disease.

SECTION B.

3. Give the causes, symptoms and modes of death in saccharine diabetes. What are the complications which may arise in the course of the disease?

4. Give the symptoms, diagnosis, and anatomical characters of cancer of the stomach.

MONDAY, 24TH JUNE,

[2-30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

SURGERY, SURGICAL ANATOMY AND OPHTHALMIC

SURGERY.

1. State all you know about the local and constitutional effects of burns. Describe fully the treatment of a burn of the back of the thigh and leg of the 3rd degree.

2. Give the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and pathology of a punctured wound the knee joint (details of operation not required). Describe briefly the complications that may occur.

3. What do you mean by Scoliosis? Give the causes, phenomena, anatomical changes and diagnosis of this condition.

4. Give the signs, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of a case of carbuncle of the back of the neck.

5. (a) Give the symptoms, diagnosis and pathology of Acute Primary Glaucoma,

(6) Give the symptoms, pathology and treatment of Nasal Polypi.

TUESDAY, 25TH JUNE.
[10-30 A.M. TO 1-30 P.M.]

MIDWIFERY AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

1. Give the clinical history, prognosis and treatment of cases of peri- and para- metritis. Give the diagnosis from each other and from pelvic

hæmatocele.

2. Give the clinical history, diagnosis and treatment of a case of acute

enteritis in a child.

3. What are the various conditions leading to enlargement of the Fallopian tubes ? Give shortly their diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. 4. What are the causes of Breech presentation? How would you diagnose the case and treat the after-coming head?

5.

What are the principal causes of abortion? Give the symptoms and

treatment of a threatened case at the 5th month.

6. What are the principal varieties of contracted pelvis; how is each caused, and how would different degrees of contraction guide your treatment in a case of pregnancy?

TUESDAY, 25TH JUNE. [2.30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND HYGIENE.

1. Define what is meant in Medical Jurisprudence by the term Insanity. Give the three varieties recognised in Law.

Also state what is meant by Amentia, Dementia, Mania.

FIRST OR THE PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION, 1907. 269

2. Give the average fatal dose, the antidote, and the General Treatment in Acute cases of poisoning by the following:

Arsenic, Opium, Strychnine, Corrosive Sublimate.

3. What is Rigor Mortis? State the conditions which hasten or delay its onset and disappearance. How does it help to determine the time of death? 4. Describe the symptoms and treatment of Acute Ptomaine Poisoning. Indicate the sources and mode of production of this form of poison.

5. Describe any good method of ventilating sewers. What are the dangers to workmen entering old or foul sewers, and what precautions tend to lessen the risks ?

6. Describe the ways in which milk may become contaminated with specific organisms. What means would you recommend to prevent the introduction of infection into a household through milk?

XIV.

FIRST OR THE PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC

EXAMINATION.

EXAMINERS.

Captain W. H. DICKINSON, M.B., Ch.B., I.M.S.

ARDESHIR KAVASJI TURNER, L. M. & S.

MONDAY, STH APRIL 1907.

[2-30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]
CHEMISTRY.*

N.B.-Write the answers to each Section in a different book. Express yourself, when possible, by chemical equations.

SECTION 1.

1. Name the Alkali Metals. State the difference between a Metal and a Non-metal. How may metallic Scdium be prepared.

2. What are the proofs that the Atmosphere is a mechanical mixture, and not a chemical compound?

3. What are the different chemical varieties of the Element Carbon? Give the properties of each variety.

4. How many tons of chalk must be burnt to form 100 tons of Quick-lime? 5. Describe the Blast-furnace, and state what chemical reactions take place within it during the manufacture of cast-iron.

SECTION II.

1. What do you mean by "Empirical Formula"?

Calculate the Empirical Formula of a compound containing :

*There was only one candidate and he was exempted in other subjects.

2. Explain clearly the difference between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Alcohols, giving the structural formula, and an example of each.

How would you distinguish between them.

3. How do you obtain pure acetic acid from the product of the distillation of wood? Give tests for acetic acid.

4. Describe briefly the manufacture of soap.
What is the bi-product of the soap

of soap. obtained?

Name the different varieties manufacture, and how is it

5. How is acetylene best obtained? Give it's properties and uses.

XV.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF M.D.
BRANCH I-MEDICINE.

EXAMINERS.

Major C. H. L. MEYER, M.D., B.S., M.R.C.S., I.M.S.;
R. Row, M.D., D.Sc. (Lond.).

MONDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER.

[2.30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

MEDICINE-PAPER I.

1. Describe the clinical varieties of Uræmia. Discuss the causation and pathology of the condition.

2. Describe fully a case of General Paralysis of the insane. Give the pathology and treatment of the disease.

What

3. Give the symptoms and physical signs of a Mediastinal Tumour. varieties of Tumour are met with in this region? Give their differential diagnosis.

TUESDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER.
[2.30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

MEDICINE-PAPER II.

1. In what diseases have antitoxic methods been employed. Discuss the

rationalé and value of this form of treatment.

2. Write a commentary on the following case, discussing the diagnosis and the post-mortem appearances which were found. Y. A., æt. 26, was admitted in Jan. 1905 for severe headache and right-sided hemiplegia. Six days previously she had been found unconscious and on recovery hemiplegia and aphasia were present. The next day she had to a great extent recovered the use of her limbs. On admission headache, vertigo, vomiting and early optic neuritis were present the pulse was slow-54 per minute,--the patient was somnolent and exhibited some weakness of the right side. Two days later the hemiplegia reappeared and again showed some improvement. Ten days from this date the patient developed a series of convulsive attacks and died.

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WEDNESDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER.

[2-30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

PATHOLOGY.

1. Give a full account of the Klebs-Loefler bacillus and what local and general pathological effects does it produce on the body? Give the histological character of the lesions.

2. Give fully the physiology and pathology of Glycosuria. Give the tests by means of which you can demonstrate the presence of diabetic products in the urine.

3. Describe what information can be gathered by examining a blood film in diseases characterised by fever. Describe fully the methods by which you would prepare and stain a blood film.

MANCHERJI KAVASJI KANGA, M.A., B.SC., L. M. & S. In Botany.

YEZDEZARD DADABHAI THANEVALA, M.A.

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FRIDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER.
[2-30 P.M. TO 5-30 P.M.]

TRIGONOMETRY.

SECTION 1.

In Agriculture.

1. Define angle, and distinguish between Euclid's notion of it and the mcdern notion.

The hands of a watch are coincident at 12 o'clock and again a little after 1 o'clock. Find in degrees and minutes the angle described by each hand in the interval.

2. Express the other trigonometrical ratios of an angle in terms of its

sine,