The Medical Fortnightly, Volume 46, Issue 71914 |
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Page 352 - Service in hospitals for the insane or experience in the detection of mental diseases will be considered and credit given in the examination. Candidates must have had one year's hospital experience or two years
Page 352 - Boards of commissioned medical officers will be convened to meet at the Bureau of Public Health Service, 3 "B" Street, SE, Washington, DC, and at the Marine Hospitals of Boston, Mass , New York, NY, Chicago, 111., St.
Page 352 - ... service up to 40 per cent after twenty years' service. The tenure' of office is permanent. Officers traveling under orders are allowed actual expenses. For...
Page 352 - Candidates must be between 23 and 32 years of age, graduates of a reputable medical college, and must furnish testimonials from two responsible persons as to their professional and moral character.
Page 352 - The remainder of the written exercise consists of examination in the various branches of medicine, surgery, and hygiene. The oral examination includes subjects of preliminary education, history, literature, and natural sciences. The clinical examination is conducted at a hospital. The examination usually covers a period of about ten days. Successful candidates will be numbered according to their attainments on examination, and will be commissioned in the same order. They will receive early appointments....
Page 352 - Promotion to the grade of surgeon is made according to seniority and after due examination, as vacancies occur in that grade. Assistant surgeons receive $1,600, passed assistant surgeons $2,000 and surgeons $2,500 a year.
Page 352 - Written. 4, Clinical. In addition to the physical examination, candidates are required to certify that they believe themselves free from any ailment which would disqualify them for service in any climate. The examinations are chiefly in writing, and begin with a short autobiography of the candidate.
Page 352 - ... branches of medicine, surgery, and hygiene. The oral examination includes subjects of preliminary education, history, literature, and natural sciences. The clinical examination is conducted at a hospital and, when practicable, candidates are required to perform surgical operations on a cadaver.
Page 350 - ... which induce chronic intestinal obstruction and led to coprostasis and autointoxication and other ailments which cause the hypersecretion or retention of mucus. The writer had observed patients who suffered at first from myxorrhea membranacea and later M. colica where the mucus became inspissated, irritating and excited enterospasm. The writer maintained that the diagnosis was easy in uncomplicated cases and that Myxorrhea Membranacea could be recognized by its symptom complex, obstinate constipation,...