FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Detail the appearances found in the body after death by apnoea. In what various ways may apnoea be occasioned ?

2. What procedure is indicated in the examination of a supposed blood stain, and how far is it possible to distinguish human blood from the blood of other mammals?

3. Relate circumstantially all the signs of pregnancy at the end of the eighth month, and describe the evidences of recent delivery, at the same period, both in the living and dead subject.

4. In what various forms is hypostasis observed ? Mention the circumstances which favour or retard its occurrence, and state how hypostasis may be distinguished from hyperæmia in its several manifestations.

5. What pathological changes are found in the brains of persons dying insane?

6. In the examination of a person found comatose, what tests are to be employed to determine whether the insensibility be due to alcohol, opium, concussion, or apoplexy?

7. How are poisons best classified? What are the symptoms characteristic of the effects of each class?

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FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION IN

SURGERY.

SURGERY.

TO BE USED ALSO FOR THE BEANEY SCHOLARSHIP.

The Board of Examiners.

Describe the various injuries, pericranial, cranial, and intracranial, of a serious nature, that may be caused by a violent blow with a heavy blunt instrument on the side of the head in different adult persons. Give the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in each case.

SURGERY.

TO BE USED ALSO FOR THE BEANEY SCHOLARSHIP.

The Board of Examiners.

CASES FOR COMMENTARY.

1. A girl, ætat 18, is stabbed with a knife in the eighth intercostal space of the left side, the wound is about an inch long. A piece of great omentum six inches long, and about the thickness of two fingers is protruding, and completely plugs the wound.

How would you treat such a case if it were brought under your care immediately after the infliction of the injury? Describe minutely the course you would pursue, and the difficulties you

would expect to encounter. Mention two recognized modes of treatment of the wound, and the circumstances that would induce you to select one or the other. What would be the most probable sequences should any arise?

2. How would you treat the two following cases? Describe the probable nature of the complication and the attending danger.

(a) Simple fracture of the femur a little above the condyles, followed by great pain and swelling of the leg, with loss of pulsation in the tibial arteries. (b) Simple fracture of the tibia near the middle of the bone, accompanied with pain and swelling, and loss of pulsation in the posterior tibial artery.

3. Describe the coverings of an encysted hernia of the tunica vaginalis, and point out the parts that are calculated to embarrass a surgeon in the operation of herniotomy.

FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION IN

ENGINEERING.

ADVANCED SURVEYING.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give as full a description as you can, illustrated by sketches and numerical particulars, of the first 100 miles of the railway extending from Sydney

toward Bathurst. Discuss the reasons for the route, curves, and grades adopted, and give your opinion as to the probability a line offering fewer impediments to traffic being ultimately constructed.

2. What is meant by the "grade contour" of a railway located upon the slope of a range of mountains? Illustrate your answer by a diagram showing its nature and use.

3. Describe fully the method you would adopt to accurately determine the discharge of a stream, the volume of which was usually small, but which was subject to occasional heavy floods.

4. Give all the information you can as to the most modern and approved method of computing the discharge of rivers and canals, and compare it with earlier formulæ.

5. Describe fully the way in which you would proceed to lay out a scheme of water supply by gravitation for an inland town of, say ten thousand inhabitants, situated near a tract of hilly uninhabited country.

6. Explain fully how you would proceed to lay out upon the earth's surface a given parallel of latitude, with the utmost attainable accuracy.

7. Discuss the various methods employed for calculating the lengths of the sides of triangles in extensive trigonometrical surveys.

MECHANICAL DRAWING AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. A cone, the base of which is 3 inches in diameter while its height is 4 inches, is placed so that its axis is inclined 45° to the horizontal and 30° to the vertical plane. Draw its plan and elevation.

2. An octagonal prism, each side of which is 1 inch, is cut by a plane making an angle of 15° with its axis. Make an accurate drawing of the section.

3. Draw a cycloid, the diameter of the rolling circle being 1 inch. State what use is made of this curve in mechanism.

4. Make an isometrical drawing of a frustum of a cone, one end being 4 and the other 2 inches diameter, and the height 3 inches.

5. Make a perspective drawing of a box, with the lid open at an angle of 45°. The exterior length, breadth, and depth being 4, 3, and 2 inches respectively, and the thickness inch. The longer 144 edge of the box to make an angle of 30° with the picture plane.

6. Write an essay on the various methods of delineating the features of the earth's surface upon a plane.