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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 245 certificate of having acquired practical knowledge of Cupping Candidates may also at their option send in certificates of attendance at any liospitals 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 80 far as the requirements of the service will permit they will have the choice of the Pre si- dency in India to which they shall be appointed according to the order of merit in which they stand on the list resulting from such examination All Assistant-Surgeons are required to subscribe to the military or medical and medical retiring funds at the Presidencies to which they may be respectively appointed and to the Military Orphan Society also if appointed to Bengal All Assistant-Surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to India under the orders of the Court of Directors within three months from the date of their appointments will be considered as having forfeited them unless specialcircum- stances shall justify departure from this regulation copy of these Regulations and any further information may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Military Department East India House The Examinations will take place in the nths of January and July in each year and due notice will be given by public advertisement of the days appoi nted and of the probable number of Candidates to be selected