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year and have produced evidence of the fact to the sat- 

 isfaction of the council. Before entering on the medi- 

 cal course the intending student must satisfy the ex- 

 aminers at the senior public examinations in the follow- 

 ing subjects: 1, English literature and English history 

 and geography; 2, Latin; 3, arithmetic and algebra ; 

 4, geometry. 5, one of the following — a, Greek; b, 

 French; c, German." 



The medical course is five years. The examinations 

 are held annually in November and supplementary ex- 

 aminations may be held, should occasion arise, in March. 

 The students are not pestered with so many examina- 

 tions as in some of our medical colleges and their time 

 is spent in steady, uninterrupted work instead of one- 

 fourth of it being spent in cramming for the frequent 

 examinations, as is the case with some ol our schools. 



The first examination includes: 1, Elementary anat- 

 omy and dissection; 2. elementary biology, theoretical 

 and practical; 3, inorganic chemistry, theoretical and 

 practical; 4, elements of physics. 



The second includes : 1, Anatomy, general and de- 

 scriptive, with dissections; 2, physiology, including 

 practical physiology, histology and physiologic chemi.-- 

 try; 3, organic chemistnr, theoretical and practical. 

 with special reference to physiology and medicine: the 

 chemistry of poisons, organic and inorganic, with spe- 

 cial reference to their detection. 



The third includes : 1, Principles and practice of 

 medicine; 2, principles and practice of surgery; 3, re- 

 gional and surgical anatomy; 4, materia medica. 



The fourth includes: 1, Principles and practice of 

 medicine, including clinical medicine; 2, principles and 

 practice of surgery, including surgical anatomy and 

 clinical surgery; 3, obstetrics; 4, forensic medicine, in- 

 cluding insanity; 5. pathology. 



The fifth and last includes: 1, Medicine, all branches; 

 2, surgery, all branches, including anatomy and oper- 

 ative surgery; 3, gynecology; 4, ophthalmology; 5, otol- 

 ogy; 6, elements of hygiene; 7, therapeutics. 



