THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 11 



SENIOR 



MATERIA MEDICA EXAMINATION. 



April, 1912. 



1. State the sources (with percentages ) of caffeine, and explain 



its action. 



2. Define Ij^iecacuanha and explain the definition. 



3. Give as good an account as you can of the nature, properties 



and uses of atropine. 



4. Write out the official Latin titles, correctly spelled, of the fol- 



lowing : 



Golden Seal Kermes' Mineral 



Laudanum Rochelle Salts 



Calabar Bean Dovers' Powder 



Fluid Extract of Monkshood h'oxglove 



Blue Mass Licorice 



5. State the homes of the plants which yield the following drugs; 



Spigelia Rhubarb 



Tinnivelly Senna Matico 



Buchu Eucalyptus 



Aconite Ipecac 



Belladonna Jaborandi 



6. Give the ordinary range of dose of each of the following: 



Tincture of Henbane Morphine sulphate 



Fl. Ext. of Buchu Oil of Am. Wormseed 



Zinc sulphate as emetic Croton Oil 



Syrup of Rhubarb Ext. of Stramonium 



Tine, of the Chloride of Iron Powdered Jalap 



7. Give a full account, including synonyms, definition, geographical 



source, constituents, properties, uses and official preparations, 

 including all derivatives and their doses, of Cinchona. 



8. Name all the official drugs of the Leguminosae. 



9. What can you say of the active constituents of the drugs of 



the Myrtaceae, and their general properties? 



10. What are the ])roperties and uses of Iris? Name all the other 



vegetable drugs of which you can think, which have similar 

 properties and uses. 



11. What are the principal uses of corrosive sublimate? 



