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150 MEDICAL department 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 questious in English and permits answers to be returned iu the same language The College is desirous that all 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 oa any account dispense with familiar knowledge of the Latin language as constituting au essential 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 Areta-us 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 iu 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 niaiiiier in which the examinations are conducted and the mature age of the Candi- 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 of surgeons Candidates for the Diploma will be required iu addition to certificate of being twenty-one years of age to bring proof of having been engaged in the acquirement of professional knowledge for not less than four years duriug which period they must have studied l'ractieal Pharmacy for six months and have attended one year ou the Practice of Physic and three years on the Practice of Surgery at recoguiscd lh piiul or Hospitals in the Uuited Kingdom of having studied Anatomy and Phjsiology by attendance on Lec turcs and Demonstrations and by Dissectious during three Winter Sessions of having attended two Courses of Lectures ou the Principles and Practice of Surgery one Course ou the Practice of Physic and one course ou Che- mistry and of having attended during the Summer Session oue course of