CHEMISTRY AND HYGIENE. Time allowed: 13 hours. March 11-12, 1902. How would you detect sewerage contamination in a given specimen of water? 2. Give the chemical formulae for salt, sulphuric acid and chloral. 3. Describe the properties of paraldehyde and give its use in medicine. 4. Name the principal alcoholic beverages and state the amount of alcohol they contain. 5. How would you diagnose positively a case of mercury poisoning-how treat it? 6. From what sources may chronic lead poisoning arise? 7. Name and describe the important albumenoids. 8. How is ordinary street gas made and why does it cause death when inhaled? 9. Give Haine's test for detecting glucose in urine. OBSTETRICS, Time allowed: 2 hours. March 11-12, 1902. 1. Give the indications for, and the technique of Caesarean section. 2. How would you differentiate a large ovarian cyst from a pregnant uterus; from ascites? 3. ment? Describe briefly pyosalpinx, its cause and treat 4. What is the etiology, the symptoms and treatment of extra-uterine pregnancy? 5. State your management of a case where the head and hand present. 6. Is the removal of the uterine appendages necessary or warrantable for the cure of insanity or epilepsy? Give reasons for your answer. 7. Detail your management in a case of placenta previa. 8. When is curetteage indicated? Give the method, also the dangers of the operation. 9. Give the etiology, symptoms and treatment of puerperal septicemia. 10. Describe briefly the operation for trachelorrhaphy. MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. Time allowed: 2 hours. March 11-12, 1902. 1. Give the action and therapeutics of Adrenalin. 2. Compare the action of Podophyllum and Calomel. 3. Mention four (4) alkaloids and their antidotes. 4. Outline the treatment of acute Uremia. 5. Physiological action of Veratrum Viride. 6. Treatment of Bronchitis. 7. Mention four (4) drugs that produce an eruption and give the character of the eruption. 8. Indications for the use of a Saline Infusion. Write a prescription in Latin, unabbreviated, containing four ingredients to be used in case of Asthma, giving the reasons for the use of each. PRACTICE, PATHOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS. Time allowed: 24 hours. March 11-12, 1902. 1. Etiology and diagnosis of acute Otitis Media. 2. Causes and pathology of Emphysema. 3. Clinical history of Pericarditis. 4. Differentiate an Epileptic seizure from Hysteria. 5. Give the symptoms of Scarlet Fever. 6. Differential diagnosis between acute Articular and Gonorrheal Rheumatism. 7. How does the pathology of Lobar Pneumonia differ from that of Broncho Pneumonia. 8. Give the life history and describe the plasmodium of Tertian Malaria. 9. Describe a case of Herpes Zoster. 10. Symptoms and diagnosis of Hepatic Colic. Time allowed: MIDWIFERY. March 11-12, 1902. 1. Name the presentations of the child which are normal and offer little obstruction to labor. 2. Name the presentations of the child which make delivery without mechanical assistance difficult or impossible. 3. How often and in what ways would you test the urine of the pregnant woman to find out if she had a kidney trouble liable to produce convulsions about the time of confinement? 4. How would you prepare the woman when labor pains begin? 5. What are the symptoms and signs of approaching labor? 6. How would you prepare your hands before putting a finger in the vagina? 7. Can you find out the presentation of a child without putting a finger into the vagina? 8. If so, how could you be sure whether the head or a shoulder were presenting? 9. After the child is delivered, what do you do for the mother? 10. If mother's perineum is considerably lacerated, what do you do for it and how soon do you do it? 11. How do you care for the new-born child? 12. Do you take the temperature of the mother every day or two for the first ten days after confinement? If everything is normal, what do you expect the temperature to be on the first, third and sixth days? 13. If the woman has a chill during the first ten days, what diseases may be threatened? 14. If the lochia smells badly and nearly stops with a chill, headache and fever, what would you do? 15. What foods and drinks would you allow the woman for the first three or four days after her confinement? THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE reported as follows: President, Gould A. Shelton, Hartford. S. B. St. John, Hartford. Assistant Secretary, J. H. Townsend, New Haven. Treasurer, W. W. Knight, Hartford. Committee on Matters of Professional Interest in the State, E. K. Root, P. W. Street, F. K. Hallock. Committee to Nominate Physician to the Retreat for Insane, A. R. Defendorf, Rienzi Robinson. Alternate Dissertator, W. J. Tracey. Delegate to Committee on National Legislation, Max Mailhouse. Members of House of Delegates, American Medical Association, For two years-C. S. Rodman. Delegates to Maine Medical Association, C. A. Tuttle, H. L. Swain. Delegates to New Hampshire Medical Society, C. H. Bill. C. B. Graves, Delegates to the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, E. J. McKnight, E. P. Swasey. The report was accepted and the Secretary cast one favorable ballot for the nominees, who were thus elected. Miscellaneous Business being in order, Dr. Rodman said, Some verbal amendments were made to our Constitution a year ago which should be considered now. They were suggested by the Legislative Committee of the American Medical Association. They are Chapter |