Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 278

276 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT -fSlatmn JMetifat Mention the different surfaces to which medicines are applied and the modes in which they are introduced into the system Describe the phannacopceian processes for making diluted hydrocyanic acid and mention its strength when made and the doses in which it may be prescribed Enumerate the different preparations of iodine in the phar- inaeopoeia Describe the process for making the iodide of iron and mention the doses in which the several preparations may be prescribed Describe the mode of obtaining calomel and state why sublimed is preferred to precipitated calomel State the doses in which it should be prescribed to answer the different purposes to which it is applicable δ Describe the process for obtaining strychnia the doses in which it may be prescribed and the effects it is capable of pro- ducing as medicine How is conia obtained and what are its chemical charac- teristics and in what respects does its physiological action differ from that of strychnia Describe the different measures which are included under the term of antiphlogistic treatment and state the kinds of disease for the cure of which it is suitable Enumerate the several mineral and vegetable tonics Describe the effects which they are respectively calculated to produce and the kinds of disease for the cure of which they should be prescribed