Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council.

  • MacAlister, Donald, 1854-1934.
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iion ; indications of pregnancy ; time of quickening ; distinction between active and passive movements of foetus; the first question the attendant should ask a woman on visiting her for the first time after dehvery ; in what cases retention of urine is Hkely to occur; how soon an aperient should be given after dehvery ; the danger in giving an aperient earher than forty- eight hours after dehvery; prolapse of uterus and inversion ; coverings of the foetus; causes of abortion. This Candidate's Written mark was 66. He was given 64 for his Oral, and his final mark, therefore, was 65. Candidate C was examined on the subject of Ovarian cysts, and asked to- describe in detail the pre- paration of a patient for the operation of Ovariotomy, and to name the instruments &c. that the operator might require ; also the instruments- for Craniotomy. Questions were also given on pelvic cellulitis and on jpos^_pci^r^'i^m haemorrhage. Candidate E was asked the signs of pregnancy ; management of mother after delivery ; when the cord falls off; when first teeth appear and number of teeth in fir&t dentition ; length of time an infant should be kept at breast; indications for application of the forceps in delayed labour ; definition of post par turn haemorrhage; extra-uterine pregnancy and anteflexion. The Examination was a good and a practical one; but would have been more so in the latter respect if the phantom and some of the specimens had been oftener called into use. The marking was on the whole somewhat liberal: only one Candidate, out of the entire number entered, was marked below 50 per cent. (D) Medical Jurisprudence. Dr. Dalziel, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Anderson's College, Glasgow, and Dr. Nasmyth, M.O.H. for Fifeshire &c., were the Examiners. In addition to the ordinary subjects of Examination the Candidates were required to identify various poisons and three microscopic specimens—e.p'., blood-corpuscles ; spermatozoa ; hairs, and silk fibres. The Examination, as far as we heard it, was one in Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology solely. No questions were asked in Hygiene, but there was a question in the Written paper on the disinfection of a room after