EXAMINATION QUESTIONS OF THE MISSOURI STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS. Kansas City, Mo., December 18-20, 1905. ANATOMY. 1. Describe the stomach. 2. Describe the liver. 3 Describe the pancreas. 4. Name the so-called ductless glands. 5. Describe the spleen. 6. Describe the thyroid gland. 7. What is the abdomen? 8. Name the boundaries of the abdomen. 9. Name the regions of the abdomen. 10. What parts are included in each region? PHYSIOLOGY. 1. What is the function of the cerebellum? 2. How many refracting surfaces does a ray of light pass through on its way to the retina? What are they? 3. What is the office of spleen? CHEMISTRY. 1. What is a molecule? 2. What is an element; and how many are there? Give illustration 3. What would be antidotes for combined arsenical and strychnine poisoning? 4. Give difference between chronic and acute form of lead poisoning. What are the sources of each? 5. Give (chemically) steps in manufacture of alcohol. 6. Give chemistry of respiration. 7. What is the chemical composition of milk? 8. Give antidote for phosphorus; also treatment for phosphorus poisoning. 9. Give properties of hydrogen gas. 10. What are the constituents of urine? Give normal specific gravity? 9. Describe erysipelas; (a) simple; (b) phlegmonous, and treatment. 10. How would you perform external perineal urethrotomy. OBSTETRICS. 1. Name all the female reproductive organs. 2. Describe the uterus, and give its nerve and blood supply. 3. Name all the signs of pregnancy at the end of the second month. What is Braxton Hick's sign? 4. Name some of the more important diseases of the fetus in utero. 5. What is ballottement? When is it available and how it is performed? 6. How many vertex presentations can we have? Tell me how to make the diagnosis in vertex presentations. 7. What is cephalic version; when necessary and how performed? 8. What is an impacted breech presentation? Give diagnosis and explain method of delivery. 91 Under what circumstances would you suggest podalic version? How is it performed? 10. Describe in full your management of a case of normal labor; (a) as relates to mother; (b) as relates to child. GYNECOLOGY. 1. What is subinvolution? Give the results of subinvolution of the uterus, and what is its treatment? 2. When is intrauterine irrigation justifiable? Describe the technic of its use. 3. When is ventrofixation of the uterus justifiable? Describe the operation. 4. What is endometritis? Name causes and give treatment. 5. Define (a) anemia and give treatment. (b) Chlorosis and give treatment. HYGIENE. 1. What are the elementary principles necessary to man's existence? 2. What is the physiological effect of alcohol; (a) on the nerve centers; (b) on the circulation? 3. Why is it necessary to possess a knowledge of the physical and chemical condition of soil? 4. What is the distinction between nonputrefactive decomposition, or decay, and putrefaction? 5. How do diseased germs produce their characteristic effects on the system? She waits with sad eyes ever toward the past, Yet nothing comes save Memory trailing a bridal veil Weighted and gray with dust of orange-blooms; She calls, yet nothing hears save echoes from her empty heart And sound of sodden clods that one by one fall heavily Into the newly wounded earth. She wakes and joins the palpitating throng, And there finds life's best joy in toil. Francesca Di Maria Palmer in Everybody's Magazine for February. PRENATAL INFLUENCE.-Nurse: "Oh, dear me, there goes the dear babe, down on his back again, repairing a fancied injury to his little cab; and all because the auto broke down when his dear father was going to town for the doctor!"-Puck. 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