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MEDICAL' DEPARTMENT Clinical Lectures on Surgery months Clinical Lectures on Medicine Chemistry or Lectures on Chemistry months and Prac- tical Chemistry months Materia Medica Midwifery Botany VIII regulations for the admission of candidates for the appointment of assistant-surgeon in the service of the east india company All natural born subjects of Her Majesty between 22 and 28 years of age and of sound bodily health may be candidates for admission into the service of the East India Company as Assistant-Surgeons They must subscribe and send in to Dr Scott the Physician to the Hon East India Company 10 days before the period fixed for each examination declaration to the following effect Christian and surname at fall length candidate for employment as an Assistant-Surgeon in the service of the East India Company do hereby declare that was-years of age on the--day of--- last and that labour under no constitutional disease or physical disability that can interfere with the due discharge of the duties of medical officer and also attest my readiness to proceed on duty to India within three months of receiving my appointment This declaration must be accompanied by the following documents Proof of age either by extract from the Register of the Parish in which the candidate was born or by his own declaration pursuant to the Act 5th and 6th William IV cap 62 certificate of moral character from magistrate or minister of the religious denomination to which the candidate belongs who has personally known him for at least two preceding years diploma in Surgery or degree in Medicine provided an examination in surgery be required for such degree from some body competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree certificate of having attended two courses of lectures of six months each on the practice of physic and of having attended for six months the practice and clinical instruction of the physicians at some hospital containing at least on an average 100 in-patients or of having attended one course of lectures of six months on the practice of physic and clinical instruction for twelve months certificate of having attended for three months the practical instruction given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of the insane certificate of having attended for three months one of the institutions or wards of an hospital especially devoted to the treatment of ophthalmic disease