Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BACHELOR OF MEDICINEFIRST EXAMINATION, 1841. The
first examination for the degree of bachelor of medicine has taken place
at the London University, and has raised itself to the level of Oxford
and Cambridge.
Without doubt, it will soon acquire all the other attributes of the
colleges. Town and gown rows will cause perpetual confusion to the
steady-going inhabitants of Euston-square: steeple-chases will be run,
for the express delight of the members, on the waste grounds in the
vicinity of the tall chimneys on the Birmingham railroad; and in all
probability, the whole of Gower-street, from Bedford-square to the New-
road, will, at a period not far distant, be turfed and formed into a
T.Y.C.; the property securing its title-deeds under the arms of the
university for the benefit of its legsthe bar opposite the hospital
presenting a fine leap to finish the contest over, with the uncommon
advantage of immediate medical assistance at hand.
The public press of the last week has duly blazoned forth the names of
the successful candidates, and great must have been the rejoicings of
their friends in the country at the event. But we have to quarrel with
these journals for not more explicitly defining the questions proposed
for the examinationsthe answers to which were to be considered the
tests of proficiency. By means of the ubiquity which Punch is allowed to
possess, we were stationed in the examination room, at the same time
that our double was delighting a crowded and highly respectable audience
upon Tower-hill; and we have the unbounded gratification of offering an
exact copy of the questions to our readers, that they may see with
delight how high a position medical knowledge has attained in our
country:
SELECTIONS FROM THE EXAMINATION PAPERS. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. State
the principal variations found in the kidneys procured at Evanss and
the Coal Hole; and likewise name the proportion of animal fibre in the
rump-steaks of the above resorts. Mention, likewise, the change produced
in the albumen, or white of an egg, by poaching it upon toast.
Describe the comparative circulation of blood in the body, and of the
Lancet, Medical Gazette, and Bells Life in London, in the hospitals;
and mention if Sir Charles Bell, the author of the Bridgewater Treatise
on the Hand, is the editor of the last-named paper.
MEDICINE. You are called to a fellow-student taken suddenly ill. You
find him lying on his back in the fender; his eyes open, his pulse full,
and his breathing stertorous. His mind appears hysterically wandering,
prompting various windmill-like motions of his arms, and an accompanying
lyrical intimation that he, and certain imaginary friends, have no
intention of going home until the appearance of day-break. State the
probable disease; and also what pathological change would be likely to
be effected by putting his head under the cock of the cistern.
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