Qualifications and examination of candidates for commissions in the Army Medical Servce ; Organization of the practical Army Medical School, including the subjects to be taught by the professors : and, Rules for the examination of assistant-surgeons previous to promotion.

  • Great Britain. War Office
Date:
1859
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Credit: Qualifications and examination of candidates for commissions in the Army Medical Servce ; Organization of the practical Army Medical School, including the subjects to be taught by the professors : and, Rules for the examination of assistant-surgeons previous to promotion. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kations and Diets. Secretions. ing. Secondary digestion or conversion of food into blood. Analysis of the blood, composition in different diseases. Analysis of the various parts of the body, bones, &c., nutrition or deposition of solid matter from the blood. Flesh, or muscle, composed of fibre and fat essentially. Mode of judging of the wholesomeness and diseased state of animal food. Meat of dead animals, slipped calves, measley pork, raw ham containing entozoa capable of communicating disease. Chemical constituents of rations and hospital diets. Secretions.—Milk, analysis of adulterations, milk of different animals, value in disease. Urine.—Analysis in the healthy and diseased states, detec¬ tion of sugar and albumen, indigo, crystalline deposits. Use of the microscope. Analysis of gravel and calculi, and consi¬ deration of the scientific treatment of urinary diseases, from a proper acquaintance with the chemistry of the animal system. Urine as a manure, mode of preserving its ammonia in barracks and stables. Nature of the skin and skin diseases. Chemical compo¬ sition of skin. Mucous membranes. Importance of pre¬ serving the skin clean by sponging, brushing, bathing—hot and cold. Function of the skin. Exhalation of gas and vapour. Respiration by the lungs a source of impurity to the air. Relation of the intestinal surface to the respiratory or pul¬ monary surface to be properly observed in reference to health. Chemistry of the diseases of the lungs. Tubercles. Modified albumen. General relations of the system to the external world. Animal heat. The Professor of Chemistry will also give practical instruc¬ tion in the extemporaneous preparation of medicinal substances, and in dispensing.