Calendar: 1846-1847 Page 100
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92 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT shall also take case or cases chosen by the surgeons from patients in the house at the time of examination In-Patient Dressers shall dress and register the cases ad- mitted into the Hospital under the direction of the surgeon or house surgeon and on the respective accident days of the surgeon under whom they may be serving the senior Dressers shall be in readiness to discharge the duties of House-surgeon in the event of his absence from the Hospital In the absence of any In-Patient Dresser from illness the senior Oat-Patient Dresser of the same surgeon shall be his substitute The Dressers both In and Out shall be selected from those Students who have passed the examination according to their priority of registration in the Hospital register House Surgeon -He shall be Member of the College of Surgeons and shall have served to the satisfaction of the surgeons the offices of Out and In-Patient Dresser for the full period of six months each He shall previously to his appointment produce certificate of moral character to the satisfaction of the Committee of Management He shall before entering into office pay the sum of 80 for board and lodging during his six months' residence in the Hospital The examination shall be both viva voce and written-the former in Anatomy and the application of Surgical Apparatus the latter in Surgery and Materia Medica including Toxi- cology The most proficient candidates shall be elected The House Surgeon shall visit the surgical wards daily between ten and twelve accompany the surgeon during his visit and prescribe under his direction shall see such patients in the evening as he may think necessary and shall be responsible for the proper management and dressing of all the surgical cases The instruments and surgical apparatus shall be in his charge and he shall make Monthly Report of their condition to the Medical Committee He shall superintend the necessary preparations for and be present at all operations In the absence of the House Surgeon the senior In-Patient
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