A guide to the examinations by the Conjoint Examining Board in England, and for the diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Frederick James Gant
Date:
1899
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Credit: A guide to the examinations by the Conjoint Examining Board in England, and for the diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    might be asked as follows : Diabetes mellitus—What is Frayling’s test, and what the advantage of it ? What is this pathological specimen ?—Typhoid ulceration of the in- testine. What are its characteristic appearances ? How is the ulcer produced ? What are the abdominal symptoms of typhoid fever 1 What kind of dejections are passed ? What are the febrile symptoms ? What the characters of the eruption ? How many spots usually, and their situa- tion ? What is the appearance of the tongue ? What the average duration of the fever ? The period of incubation 1 What are the causes of a fatal issue ? The symptoms of peritonitis from perforation of the intestine ? What the treatment, and of intestinal haemorrhage ? A third candi- date might be questioned in another direction : What is this skin eruption, depicted in a coloured lithograph? — herpes zoster. What is its nature and common situations ? What is this eruption ?—molluscum. Another drawing showing congenital syphilitic eruption. Another, showing impetigo. What is this specimen ?—aortic valvular disease. What is the character of the pulse (Corrigan’s) ? What are the signs of mitral incompetency ] What is there peculiar in the patient’s appearance ? A fourth candidate may be submitted to the following questions : What are the signs of pericarditis'? State the diagnostic signs of pleurisy and pneumonia. The tests for sugar in the urine, Trommer’s test more particularly ? The kind of diet, and the reasons for it ? Why is brown bread ordered ? What is this speci- men ?—an iujected lung, showing a cavity at the apex, and abundant tubercular deposit. What are the signs of a cavity ? Name the sound of the percussion note. The signs of pneumothorax, from rupture of a cavity ? What are the consequences ? Describe the signs arising from the presence of air and fluid in the pleural cavity. Results of the 'preceding Examinations for the diploma of Member.—Primary examination.—Example.—Number of candidates, 103, 11 of whom had been up once pre- viously, and 5 of the 11 twice before, the present occasion being their third trial. 43 of the whole number referred to their anatomical studies for three months. All these were candidates for the first time.—Second or pass-exami- nation.—Example.—Number of candidates, 40, only 1 having been up on a previous occasion. 9 were referred for six months. The one previously referred, passed.— Medicine : Number of candidates, 24, 10 of whom were referred for a period of not less than three months.