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264 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 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 Candidates who may not have been able to attend the practice of an asylum for the insane or of an ophthalmic hospital for three months previous to their offering themselves for examination will not be excluded from examination but will if successful in obtaining recommendation for appointments be required to produce certificates of having attended such practice during the interval between the Examination and the time of proceeding to India certificate of having attended course of lectures on Midwifery and of having conducted at least six Labours certificate of having acquired practical knowledge of Cupping Candidates may also at their option send in certificates of attendance at any hospitals or on any courses of lectures in addition to the above Attendance on course of military surgery and the practical study of surgical operations on the dead body are recommended list of all Diplomas Certificates and other documents in the order above stated to be sent to the Examining Physician to the Council of India fifteen days prior to the day of examination as advertised in the London Gazette The Examination will include the following subjects Surgery in all its departments Medicine including the Diseases of Women and Children Therapeutics Pharmacy and Hygiene Anatomy and Physiology including Comparative Anatomy Natural History including Botany and Zoology The following are the books recommended in- Zoology and Comparative Anatomy- Outlines of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom by Rymer Jones Cours Elementaire d'Histoire Naturelle par Milne Edwards Botany- Lindley's School Botany Lindley's Elements of Botany The Examination will be conducted- By means of written questions and answers By object examinations and experiments when the subject admits of such tests By practical examination of patients and by operations on the dead body By viva voce examination The persons who shall be pronounced by the Examiners to be the best qualified in all respects will be appointed to fill the requisite number of appointments as Assistant-Surgeons in the East India Company's service and so far as the