2. A substance is found, by analysis, to have the empirical formula C,H,N, with the molecular weight 59. It is required to ascertain its constitution by chemical methods. How would you proceed?

3. Give an account of the various ways in which fatty oxy-acids may behave on dehydration.

4. Describe the general characteristic properties of the homologues of benzoic acid.

5. Give an account of hydrazine and its organic derivatives.

6. Explain and exemplify the distinction between colligative properties, additive properties, and constitutive properties.

TECHNICAL CHEMISTRY.

The Board of Examiners.

Give an account of each of the following:

(1) The metallurgy of platinum, and its appli

cations.

(2) The metallurgy of aluminium.

The manufacture of potassium permanganate. (4) The manufacture of alizarin and nearly allied dyes.

(5) The manufacture of vulcanite.

(6) The manufacture of salicylic acid by Kolbe's

process.

(7) The manufacture of fulminates.

MATERIA MEDICA, MEDICAL BOTANY, AND ELEMENTARY THERAPEUTICS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Coniferae.-Give a list of the officinal substances, with their preparations and doses, derived from this order, and describe their general actions and

uses.

2. Cardiac Tonics.-State what you know as to the mode of action, and the uses, of this therapeutical group. What are the special actions of the "Digitalis Group"?

3. What special remedies would you use in the following conditions, and how would you administer them-(1) Ague; (2) Tropical Dysentery; (3) Asthma; (4) Acute Rheumatism; (5) Angina Pectoris; (6) Epilepsy; (7) Acute Gout; (8) Hæmoptysis?

4. Give the officinal preparations of Phosphorus, with their doses, and describe the actions of that drug.

5. What are the doses of the following substances:Phenazonum; Caffeinae Citras; Pilocarpinae Hydrochloras; Picrotoxinum; Acidum Benzoicum; Acetanilidum; Potassii Iodidum; Acidum Arseniosum ?

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE.

PAPER I.

The Board of Examiners.

Candidates are expected to answer each question.

1. Enumerate the main Hypnotics. Give the preparations with their doses, and describe generally their application.

2. Enumerate the main Antipyretics. Describe their modes of action and discuss their uses.

3. Mention the main preparations of Soda, and illustrate their uses.

4. State what you know therapeutically of the Cutaneous Stimulants.

5. Describe fully the mode of action of Mercury.

THERAPEUTICS, DIETETICS, AND HYGIENE. PAPER II.

The Board of Examiners.

A.

1. Discuss the part played in digestion by the salivary, peptic, and pancreatic secretions, the gastrointestinal movements, and the hepatic cells respectively.

2. How would you peptonise (a) milk; (b) gruel; (c) beef-tea.

3. Construct a dietary for dyspepsia of different degrees.

B.

1. How does Temperament affect the health.

2. Discuss the values of Heat; Hydrarg; Perchlor; Acid, Carbol.; Lime and Acid Sulphuros; as disinfectants.

3. Enumerate the main Instructions issued by the Public Health Department of Victoria for the guidance of Public Vaccinators.

SURGERY.

FIFTH YEAR.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give the symptoms, progress, terminations, and treatment of caries of the vertebræ.

2. Describe the course of a direct inguinal hernia from the abdomen to the scrotum, and its relation to the deep epigastric artery.

How would you diagnose an incomplete direct inguinal from a femoral hernia?

3. What are the general appearances, the course, symptoms, and diagnosis of the two following venereal affections: :(a) The hard infecting chancre, and (b) the soft chancre? How should each of these forms of disease be treated, locally and constitutionally? What are the sequelæ in either form?

4. Describe minutely the treatment of a recent wound which has penetrated the knee joint. Give the symptoms and treatment of acute traumatic arthritis of this joint. How would you drain the joint?

5. Describe the abnormal positions of the ends of the bone sometimes seen in the following simple fractures of the radius, viz., those which are situated immediately above the insertion of the pronator teres, and those which are immediately below the insertion of that muscle. What muscles are concerned in displacing the fragments, and what means would you employ to maintain the bone in its proper position in each of these cases ?

6. Give the symptoms and diagnosis of a recent dislocation of the head of the femur on to the pubes. Describe the reduction by manipulation, also reduction by the pulleys. What is the differential diagnosis between this dislocation and an impacted fracture of the neck of the femur?