Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fourteenth year, session 1848-49 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education.
- Medical College of Bengal
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Medical College of Bengal : fourteenth year, session 1848-49 / under the immediate control and superintendence of the Council of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![CHEMISTRY. 1. Give an account of the states in which caloric or heat exists ia bodies, the modifications which take phice in these states by the changes of form which bodies undergo, the modes in which caloric is communi- cated from one body to another, and the general effects produced by an increase or abstraction of caloric upon these bodies. 2. Give the properties of iodine, its tests, and the dififerent processes by which hydriodic acid is obtained from it, together with the tests by which that acid is recognised. 3. Mention the composition, properties and manner of preparation of the oxides of mercury, and the tests by which the salts of these different oxides are distinguished from one another as well as from other sub- stances. 4. State what are the properties of antimony, what are its combina- tions with oxygen, and its distinguishing tests. 5. Give the best mode of preparation of chloroform, the theory of the process, its properties, com])osition, and tests. 6. Give the properties of zinc, of its compounds with oxygen and chlorine, and its tests. 7. State what are the properties of potassium, what are its oxides, their modes of preparation and tests? BOTANY. 1. Describe the elementary organs of plants, and mention the parts of the plant in which they <ire severally found. 2. What is the structure, mode of growth, and office of the root ? 3. What are the several kinds of stem ? 4. Describe a simple leaf, naming its varieties. 5. Describe a compound leaf. . 6. Describe the diflferent kinds of inflorescence, and name an example of each kind. 7. What is the structure, office, and mode of insertion of the stamen ? 8. Describe the pistil with the parts composing it. 9. What is the structure of the seed, and what are the names of the principal varieties ? 10. What are the characters of the four sub-classes into which DeCandoUe divides the exogenous plants ? 11. What are the characters of the Leguminosaj and its principal divi- sions. MATERIA MEDICA. 1. The preparation, tests, characters, uses, and doses of the sulphate of copper. 2. The general uses of purgatives in the treatment of disease. 3. The preparation, properties, tests and uses of iodine, vvith an enumeration of its officinal compounds, and the special employment, as well as dose of each. 4. The botanical characters of the Aconitum Ferox, the preparations of aconite, and the diseases in which they are used, with the dose of each. c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24766823_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
