Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council.

  • Donald MacAlister
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[1894]
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Credit: Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the present occasion, out of the 70 Candidates who had not previously taken it, 58 only presented themselves for the Ex- amination in Pathology, the remainder having either been pre- viously stopped at their Clinical Examinations or v^ithdrawn. The Oral Examination in Pathology occupied the whole of two days. In the other subjects seventeen or eighteen Candi- dates were in general examined on each day. One of us attended the Oral Examinations on July 12 and 13, and both of us were present at portions of all of them on July 14. As far as possible we followed the examination in the different subjects of the same Candidates. Each Candidate had a card, which he presented at the successive tables, and this was initialed by an Examiner when he had finished with the Candidate. (A) Medicine. The Examiners were Professors McCall Andekson and Gaiedner, with Dr. Duff, of Chester, as extern Examiner, On the first day, Dr. McCall Anderson examining, Candidate A was asked the date of appearance of the rash in the Exanthe- mata and in the continued Fevers, the characters of the rash in Scarlet Fever and in Measles, and the symptoms, complica- tions, and treatment of these diseases; the forms of Bright's disease, and the head symptoms and cerebral lesions in cases of gouty kidney ; the causes of hemiplegia, &c. This Candidate's examination lasted ten minutes, and he answered well. The next Candidate (B) was questioned by Dr. Duff, chiefly on Pneumonia and Pleurisy. A third Candidate (C), examined by Professor Anderson, was shown a coloured drawing of a case of facial paralysis, and asked what side was affected, &c. ; also an illustration of wrist-drop, and questioned on the diseases in which that condition occurred; the lesion in alcoholic paralysis, usual position of the foot in that affection, and the sex in which it was most commonly met with. He was then shown a plate of Alopecia areata (which he recognised), and was asked as to the supposed nature of the affection, and to write a prescription for it, the mixture to contain nux vomica and arsenic. This he
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