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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1870-1871-266

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 265 to make declaration that he is free from any mental or bodily disease defect or infirmity which could interfere with the efficient discharge of his duties as Medical Officer in the Navy Each Candidate will be required to produce Certificate of good moral character signed by clergyman of the parish or magistrate or legally qualified physician or surgeon Certificate that he is not less than twenty nor more than twenty-eight years of age That subsequently to the age of eighteen he has actually attended recog- nised Hospital for eighteen months in which the average number of patients is not less than one hundred That he has been engaged in actual dissection for twelve months and that he has performed the principal capital and minor operations on the dead body under qualified teacher On producing the above Certificates he will be examined before Board of Naval Vledical Officers specially summoned by their Lordships on the fol- lowing subjects viz -Anatomy Surgery Physiology or Institutes of Medicine Practice of Medicine Chemistry Materia Medica Midwifery Botany Although competent knowledge of the above-named subjects is all that is absolutely required in Candidates for the appointment of Assistant-Surgeon favourable consideration will be given to those who are acquainted with the collateral sciences more immediately connected with the Profession such as Natural History Natural Philosophy andthe use of the Microscope in diagnosis Such Candidates as shall have been found in all respects competent for the appointment of Assistant-Surgeon will be forthwith nominated to one of Her Majesty's Ships or to Naval Hospital at home or should their services not be immediately required their names will be duly registered for early appointments as vacancies may occur But it is distinctly to be observed that Candiiiates admitted into the Naval Medical Service must serve in whatever ship they may be appointed to and that in the event of their being unable to do so from sea-sickness their names cannot be continued on the Naval Medical List nor can they of course be allowed half-pay 10 After completing three years' Full Pay Service Assissant-Surgeons will be allowed to be examined for tbe rank of Surgeon before Board of Naval Medical Officers assembled at the Department of the Medical Director-General of the Navy but no Assistant-Surgeon can be promoted to the rank of Surgeon until he shall have served five years two of which must have been in ship actually at sea 11 By the rules of the Service no Assistant-Surgeon can be promoted to the rank of Surgeon until he shall have served five years two of which must have been in ship actually employed at sea after which he will be required to pass an examination before Board of Naval Medical Officers assembled at the Department of the Medical Director-General of the Navy His physical fitness will be determined by tbe Board of Medical Officers who will be required to certify that his vision is sufficiently good to enable him to perform any surgical operation without the aid of glasses and that he is free from organic disease constitutional weakness or other disability likely to unfit him for the Naval Service in any climate
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