Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 140

13G MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The second Examination includes all that relates to the causes and symptom of diseases and whatever portions of the collateral sciences may appear to heloug to these subjects The third Examination relates to the treatment of diseases including scieu- 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 and permits answers to be returned in the same language The College is desirous that all those who receive its Diploma should have had such previous education as would imply competent know led 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 ntial part of liberal education at the commencement therefore of each oral exa- mination 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 Syden- 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 writiug 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 in which the examinations are conducted and the mature age of the 'audi- dates as affording full time 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 XIX royal college oe surgeons Candidates for the Diploma will be required in addition to certiiicate 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 yevtl duriug which period they must have studied Practical Pharmacy for six mouths and have attended one year on the Practice of Physic and three years on the Practice of Surgery at recoguised Hospital or Hospitals in the United