EXAMINATION

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

OF THE

United States and Canada

A PRACTICAL WORK GIVING AUTHENTIC QUESTIONS
AND AUTHORITATIVE ANSWERS IN FULL THAT WILL
PROVE HELPFUL IN PASSING STATE BOARD EXAMI-
NATIONS. REPRINTED FROM THE MEDICAL RECORD

Fourth Edition

Thoroughly Revised

Every question answered in full

NEW YORK
WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY

Copyright, 1912

By WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY

First Edition, November, 1907
Second Printing, April 1908
Second Edition, September, 1908
Third Edition, October, 1910

Second Printing, February, 1912

Fourth Edition, September, 1912

State Medical Licensing Boards.

STATE BOARD EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.

ANATOMY.

(For graduates of less than five years' standing.) 1. Describe the upper third of the femur.

2. Give the class of joint, the articulation, and ligaments of the shoulder joint.

3. Trace blood from the heart by way of the subclavian artery to the circle of Willis, naming the arteries uniting to form the circle.

4. Name the muscles of the anterior chest, and give origin and insertion of the largest one of them.

5. Name the main superficial venous trunks of the upper arm, describing one of them.

6. Describe the gall-bladder and the bile-ducts.

7. Describe the great sciatic nerve.

8. Describe the rectum.

(For graduates of more than five years' standing.)

1. Name the bones of the lower extremity.

2. Name and locate the valves of the heart.

3. Describe in full the sartorius muscle.

4. Locate the spleen and describe its gross anatomy.

5. Describe in full the pulmonary veins.

6. Describe the contents in Scarpa's triangle and give their relations.

7. Name the lobes and ventricles of the brain.

8. Name the ligaments supporting the uterus and describe it's blood supply.

PHYSIOLOGY.

1. Explain the functions of the spinal cord.

2. What are the functions of the trifacial or fifth pair of cranial nerves?

3. What is meant by cell action? Give examples.

4. What are the supposed functions of the spleen?

5. What are the supposed functions of the thyroid gland?

What symptoms sometimes follow its removal?

6. Explain the glycogenic function of the liver.

7. How is the equilibrium of the circulation of the blood maintained in the body?

8. What are the functions of the skin?

CHEMISTRY.

(Answer eight.)

1. What is the difference between analytic and synthetic methods in chemistry? Illustrate each.