MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. 
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coarse of study. This objection, however, presents but little 
weight, as the branches of a medical education may be so arranged, 
that the one on which the candidate is examined always implies 
a knowledge of those on which he has already been questioned. 
Moreover, the last examination may be made to resume all the others, 
if it be considered to be desirable. There is another great improve- 
ment which ought to be adopted in examinations by the medical 
bodies granting degrees in this country. All examinations ought 
to be completely public, that is, open to the profession. Such 
publicity would act as a powerful check, both on the examiners 
and on the students. To the students it would, indeed, be an in- 
calculable advantage. Many now present themselves for examina- 
tion presuming on the good-nature of their examiners, or on their 
own good luck, who would think twice before they exposed them- 
selves to the ridicule and scorn of their fellow students. We are 
surprised that examinations for scientific degrees were not long 
ago thrown open throughout Great Britain, and are convinced that 
it will not be very long before some measure of the kind will be 
everywhere adopted. A candidate who is really full prepared, so 
far from fearing a public examination, would court it, as he knows 
that in addition to his examiners he will have a jury of friends 
and fellow-students to support and disinculpate him, should he not 
be treated as he thinks he ought to be by his examiners. The 
students who object to public examination are those who doubt 
their own knowledge, and confide more in the indulgence of the 
examiners than in their own information. They are glad to have 
no witnesses of their probable defeat, as they are then able to revile 
their examiners, which they could not do had their comrades 
witnessed their discomfiture. The dread which such persons have 
of their fellow-students is, undoubtedly, justified by the facts of the 
case, as the latter will ever constitute a much more severe jury 
than the great majority of examiners. The feeling, however, is a 
wholesome one, as it would induce them to prepare more diligently 
for the examination which they had to undergo.” 
THE ART OF APPROACHING, SEIZING, AND TAMING 
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 
By M. Godine, Jim. 
The art of approaching, seizing, and taming domesticated ani- 
mals is a new consideration in the veterinary profession. I am not 
aware that any author has yet spoken exjprofesso on this subject, so 
