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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 10 option Amount of fee 10 The most distinguished Candidate receives gold medal of 20 value Λ medal of the value of 10 is given to the author of tlie best Commentary on the ease in Surgery the case in Medicine 1110 case ויי in Midwifery and to the writer of the hest Thesis on suhject of his own י choice For the regulations relating to Students who commenced their Medical Studies in or hefore January 1839 and to Practitioners in Medicine or Surgery desirous of obtaining degrees in Medicine see the London University Ul Calendar 1840 G2 Section XVIII ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS Every Candidate for Diploma in Medicine upon presenting himself for examination shall produce satisfactory evidence of unimpeached moral cha- racter of having completed the twenty-sixth year of his age of having devoted himself for five years at least to the study of Medicine The course of study thus ordered hy the College comprises Anatomy and Physiology the Theory and Practice of Physic Forensic Medicine Chemistry Materia Medica and Botany and the principles of Midwifery and Surgery Each Candidate shall have diligently attended for three entire years the Phy- sicians' practice of some Hospital containing at least one hundred heds and having regular establishment of Physicians as well as Surgeons Candidates who have been educated abroad will be required to show that in addition to the full course of study already specified they have diligently attended the Physicians' practice iu some general Hospital in this country for at least twelve months Candidates who have already been engaged in practice and have attained the age of forty years but have not passed through the complete course of study above described may be admitted to examination upon presenting to the Censors' Board such testimonials of character general and professional as shall be satisfactory to the College The first Examination is in Anatomy and Physiology and is understood to comprise knowledge of such propositions in any of the physical sciences as have reference to the structure and functions of tbe human body The second Examination includes all that relates to the causes and symptoms of diseases and whatever portions of the collateral sciences may appear to belong to these subjects Tbe third Examination relates to the treatment of diseases including scien- tific knowledge of all the means used for that purpose