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medical department 101 of diseases and whatever portions of the collateral sciences may appear to belong to these subjects The third Examination relates to the treatment of diseases including scien- tific knowledge of all the means used for that purpose The three Examinations are held at separate meetings of the Censors' Board The vivA voce part of each is carried on in Latin except when the Board deems it expedient to put questions in English andpennits answers to be returned in the same language The College is desirous that nil those who receive its Diploma should have had such previous education as would imply competent knowledge of Greek but it does not consider this indispensable if the other qualifications of the Candidate prove satisfactory it cannot however on any account dispense with familiar knowledge of the Latin language as constituting an essential part of liberal education at the commencement therefore of each oral exa- ruination the Candidate is called on to translate vivA voce into Latin passage from Hippocrates Galen or Aretaeus or if he declines this he is at any rate expected to construe into English portion of the works of Celsus or Sydcn- ham or some other Latin medical author In connexion with the oral examinations the Candidate is required on three separate days to give written answers in English to questions on the different subjects enumerated above and to translate in writing passages from Greek or Latin books relating to medicine The College gives no particular rules as to the details of previous education or the places at which it is to be obtained It will be obvious however from reference to the character and extent of the study above described the manner iu which the examinations are conducted and the mature age of the Candi- dates as affording full lime for acquiring the necessary knowledge that there will be ample security afforded to the public and the profession that none but those who have had liberal and learned education can presume with the slightest hope of success to offer themselves for approval to the Censors' Board Section XV royal college of surgeons Candidates for the Diploma will be required in addition to certificate of being not less than twenty-one years of age to bring proof of having been engaged in the acquirement of professional knowledge for not less than four years during which period they must have studied Practicid Pharmacy for six months and have attended one year on the Practice of Physic and three years on the Practice of Surgery at recognised Hospital or Hospitals in the United Kingdom three months being allowed for vacation in each year of having studied Anatomy and Physiology by attendance ou Lectures and Demonstra- tions and by Dissections during three Winter Sessions of not less than six