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vaseline. Snip off the wart and treat the base with this ointment. Do not get any of it inside the eye, as it will prove painful.

In acute conjunctivitis, use a collyrium prepared of ergot half a dram and solution of borac acid half an ounce. It acts by contracting the blood vessels and allaying the attendant inflammation.

Hydrangea, combined with any other indi cated remedy, is of great value in the acute nephritis of children.

In retention of urin due to stricture of the urethra, try gelsemium.

In quinsy, penciling the tonsils with veratrum will exercise a markt influence on the inflammation, and will sometimes arrest it at

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1. What five elements are gases in their natural state?
2. What is meant by atomic weight? Molecular weight?

3. What is double composition? Illus rate.

4. What is the difference between fermentation and putrefaction? 5. Select some abnormal body found in the urine; give its clinical significance and test for same.

MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.
E. A. Jelks, M.D.

1. (a) Source of arsenic (b) some of its preparations (c) doses of same (d) therapeutics. (e) Diagnose a case of poisoning by arsenic and by strychnia. Give treatment of poison by arsenic.

2. (a) Give the only known specific for malaria (¿) its chief alkaloid.

3. (a) Give the chief alkaloids of belladonna, hyoscyamus and calabar bean; (b) doses and therapeutics

4. (a) Define hemostatics; (b) their mode of action; (c) the best local hemostatic; (d) therapeutics.

3. (a) Name two of the most drastic vegetable purgativs; (b) doses of same.

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6. Give a prescription for intense her dache of acute remittent fever containing antipyrin and bromid of sodium.

QUESTIONS IN PATHOLOGY.

1. H. Goss, M D.

1. What pathological changes occur in cirrhosis of the liver? 2. What is the difference between thrombosis ard embolism? 3. Describe the varieties cf renal tube casts, and state in what forms of kidney disease they are found.

4. Describe the pathological changes present in the lung during the consolidation stage of acute croupous or lobar pneumonia, and include the characteristics of the exudate.

5. Designate which component part of the spinal cord is involved in locomotor ataxia, and describe the metamorphosis of structure characterizing the pathological process.

PRACTISE.

F. D. Patterson, M.D.

1. Give etiology, symptoms and treatment cf membranous laryngitis.

2. What is the chief cause of chronic gastritis in children? (a) Give important. (b) Give treatment.

3. Give most common causes of cholelithiasis. (a) Give symptoms. (b) Give treatment.

4. Give most distinguishing symptoms in typhoid fever. (a) Give most important points in treatment.

5. What are the modes of syphilitic infection? (a) With judicial treatment, what is the general r le as regards its transmissiv power? (b) What is Colle's law?

QUESTIONS IN DIAGNOSIS.

I. H. Goss, M.D.

1. Differentiate compression of the brain from injury and the phenomena of alcoholism.

2. Give the physical sign of the most usual valvular lesion of the heart.

3. What is the significance of the patella reflex as a sign of disease?

4. Differentiate empyema from pu'mcnary abscess.

5. Give symptoms resulting from paralysis of the phrenic nerve.

SURGERY.

J. B. S. Holmes, M.D. .

1. How would you treat a fracture of the shaft of the femur? 2. Describe an amputation of the thigh.

3. Give symptoms and treatment of stone in the bladder of the male.

4. How would you treat a hydrocele ?

5. Give method you would adopt for removing the kidney.

OBSTETRICS.

F. D. Patterson, M.D.

1. Define abortion, miscarriage and premature labor. (a) Give indications for inducing abortion and premature labor?

2. What are the inevitable signs cf abortion. (a) How would you manage a case?

3. What are the indications for the use of forceps?

4. How would you handle a case of head presentation?

5. What is the danger in prolapsed funis? (a) What are the indications as to treatment?

GYNECOLOGY.

J. B. S. Holmes, M.D.

1. What is urethral caruncle, and how should it be treated? 2. Give symptoms and treatment of uterin polypus.

3. Give best method of dealing with a stone in the bladder of the female.

4. Describe operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.

5. When is Alexander's operation indicated and how would you perform it?

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:-I send you copy of our last set of questions used at regular meeting of Board of Examiners of Georgia. Out of twenty-seven applicants, twenty-five were passed, who will receive their license to practise. The Board, after fully discussing the subject of reciprocity, and after consultation with Attorney General Hart, decided that reciprocity is impossible until the state law is amended, which will likely be done at next session of General Assembly. Yours truly, 1. H. Goss, Athens, Ga. Secretary Board for Georgia.

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A Tabular Outline of the State and Territorial Laws in Force May 1, 1903.

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Indian Territory,

District of Columbia. Kansas.11

Hawaii.

Florida.

Maryland. 12

Kentucky.

Georgia.

Massachusetts.

Michigan.

Idaho.

Missouri, 12

Illinois.

New Hampshire. 20

Indiana, 12

Kansas.3

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Pennsylvania 20

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Indian Territory,

Montana.
Nevada.

New Hampshire.
New Jersey.

New Mexico.12

New York.

North Carolina.
Ohio.
Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania.

Philippines.
Puerto Rico

Mississippi.

Missouri.

New Mexico.

North Dakota 11

Oklahomo,14

Oregon.

Philippines.12
Rhode Island.

Tennessee.

Texas.

West Virginia.

Missouri.
Nevada.14

New Hampshire, 20

New Mexico.

North Dakota 11

Oklahoma,14

Oregon.

Philippines,12
Pennsy vania.20
Rhode Island.15

Tennessee.
Texas.

Vermont.7
Virginia.12
West Virginia.
Wyoming 11

South Carolina.

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Utah.

Virginia.

Vermont.18

Wisconsin.

Wyoming.

17 Licensed physicians residing on border of a neigh-
boring State permitted to attend bona fide calls in State.
18 Physicians in Dominion of Canada.

19 According to ruling of Attorney-General.
20 If licensed to practise in some foreign county.
21 See resolution of board infra.

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These are busy days with me, finishing New Zealand book, enlarging office force to take care of rapidly growing business, opening a new set of subscription books, larger than ever, made necessary by our rapidly growing subscription list-and all these things have kept me too busy to be disposed to "talk." But there is always much in our complicated government problems and in the rapidly moving current of events to talk about, so on this stormy Sunday afternoon let us have our little monthly chat together.

The Panama revolution and our almost immediate recognition of the new republic, were so sudden as to nearly take one's breath. We have a President that "does things." I feared, however, that this act (the immediate recognition of the new republic) was rather precipitate and strenuous, tho I have much faith in the judgment of our Secretary of State, who I have grown to consider a great diplomatist. Severe criticisms were made at first by some high class papers, the opinions of which carry great weight, as the New York Evening Post, the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, etc., but as the underlying facts are becoming public, they seem to show that the Administration was not only alert, but that its acts have been justifiable and commendable.

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In the treatment of five cases of sciatica with iodipin, five gm. (75 min.) was injected along the course of the nerve. In three the result was striking; the pains rapidly subsided, and the free use of the limb was speedily restored. Sometimes four injections were given at one seance. In the three psoriasis cases, some of years' standing, warm baths containing some creolin, inunctions with green soap, and injections of iodipin 25 percent, soon brought about a markt improvement, so that the cure could be readily completed by an ointment of white precipitate, green soap, and vaseline. Where the patient refuses injections, the iodipin was given per os, up to 30 gm. (1 oz.) per day; rectal administration is considered superfluous. -Dermat. Ztschr., 1902, No.9.

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