Calendar: 1890-1891 Page 789

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT cxxvii An antiseptic pad is firmly bandaged over the small opening in the skin he is kept at rest in bed with the limb raised and bandaged and the wound rapidly heals At the end of week he gets up and endeavours to resume his work as carpenter but soon experiences heavy sensa- tion in the thigh which becomes painful and on examination pulsating swelling can be detected at the site of the original wound The swelling suddenly increases in size loses its definition and the limb below becomes oedematous What is your diagnosis Give your reasons for promptly adopting certain line of treatment -obstetric flfltBtrine Describe the principal varieties of extra-uterine preg- nancy their diagnosis and treatment What are the symptoms diagnosis and treatment of chronic endometritis What are the principal causes of metrorrhagia in women Describe the principles of treatment VI tfovtnsic ffiitfsitint An apparently healthy young woman is suddenly attacked with acute pain and tenderness in the abdomen vomiting collapse and death in the course of few hours To what morbid conditions may death have been due What precau- tions would you think it desirable to take at the autopsy so as to enable you to ascertain the cause of death What are the appearances presented in death by light- ning How are these to be distinguished from those exhibited in death by mechanical violence Describe case of poisining by cyanide of potassium the treatment you would adopt and the means of detecting the poison in the contents of the stomach