effects of concussion of the brain when severe; and what is the treatment of such an injury in its various stages?

2nd. When an aneurismal tumour in the lower extremity is rapidly formed, yet causes no immediate risk to life, ought it to be operated for immediately, or should some delay be allowed to occur? State the reasons for or against the immediate performance of the operation, and mention from which line of conduct in a speedily developed aneurism most success might be reasonably expected.

3rd. Describe the difference of practice as to performance of amputation in the case of gangrene in a limb, between the gangrene arising from constitutional causes, and that arising from external injury. Enumerate the kinds of injuries of limbs which would be likely to be followed by traumatic gangrene.

4th. When the urine cannot be voided through the natural passage from the presence of stricture, what operations may be necessary for drawing it off; and what are the reasons which would induce you to give the preference to one mode or to another?

5th. What are the peculiarities of congenital hydrocele ? --what its occasional complications, and what its treatment?

6th. Mention the circumstances necessary to be attended to in the use of chloroform in Surgical operations, and the cases in which its use is contra-indicated, with the reasons for its inadmissibility, independently of cases connected with operations; enumerate some other surgical cases in which advantage may be derived from the induction of anaesthesia by the inhalation of its vapour.

JOHN MCLENNAN,

Government Examiner.

C.

MIDWIFERY.

4th April 1851.

1st. Name the contents of the uterus towards the end of

pregnancy, in an order beginning from its parietes.

2nd. What are the symptoms, causes, and cure of retroversio uteri ?

3rd. What are the causes and treatment of uterine hæmorrhage, before and after delivery?

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

1st. Describe the symptoms of poisoning from opium; differences of its action as modified by age; and the treatment to be followed in a case of poisoning from this cause.

2nd. What are the diagnostic symptoms of chronic poisoning by lead?

3rd. What is the strength of the acidum hydrocyanicum dilutum of the London Pharmacopeia ?-and what of that called Scheele's Acid? What would be the best treatment for an overdose?

4th. What are the native names for nux vomica and datura stramonium? What peculiar symptoms are produced by an over, or poisonous dose of each ?-and what is the difference between the parts of the cerebro-spinal system on which each poison is supposed chiefly to act?

JOHN MCLENNAN,

Government Examiner.

APPENDIX P.

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS TO THE FIRST GRADUATES OF THE GRANT MEDICAL COLLEGE, BOMBAY.

A numerously attended Meeting took place at the Grant Medical College, on Tuesday the 15th April 1851, for the purpose of presenting Diplomas to the first Graduates of the College.

The Honorable Sir Erskine Perry, President of the Board of Education, presided on the occasion, and was supported by the Hon'ble J. P. Willoughby and the Hon'ble D. A. Blane, Members of Council. Among those present were Mr. W. E. Frere, C. S.; Brigadier Wyllie, c. B.; the Hon'ble F. Leveson Gower; Mr. Ravenscroft, C. S.; Dr. McLennan, Physician General; Juggonath Sunkersett, Esq.; Col. Hale; Dr. Buist, L. L. D., Sheriff of Bombay; Hormuzjee Bomanjee, Esq.; Col. Mant, C. B.; Major French; Dr. Scott, Secretary to the Medical Board; Major LeGrand Jacob; Dr. Stovell, Secretary of the Board of Education; Ibrahim Muckba, Esq.; Captain Fulljames; Revd. J. M. Mitchell; Revd. J. D. Gibson; Mr. J. N. Rose, C. S.; Dr. White; Captain Adams; Dr. Leith; Cursetjee Jamsetjee, Esq.; Manackjee Limjee, Esq.; Dr. Bremner; Professors Green and Reid, of the Elphinstone College; Dr. Watkins; Revd. R. W. Hume; Dr. Campbell; Revd. A. G. Fraser; Dr. Carter ; Lieut. Lodwick; Dr. Mead; W. DeBlaquiere, Esq.; Professors Peet, Coles, and Haines; Sorabjee Jamsetjee, Esq.; Major Swanson; the Vakeel of His Highness the Guicowar; and many others.

Dr. Morehead, the Principal of the College, commenced the proceedings with the following address :

It has been the practice hitherto at the close of the Sessions of this College to trace the gradual progress made by the students, and to announce the award of Collegiate Honors. But on the

present occasion I shall in some degree depart from this usage, and address myself at once to the chief object of our assembly.

This day is a great epoch in the history of the Grant College. It commemorates the fulfilment of the statesman-like views which led to its origin, and silences, we may hope for ever, the desponding forebodings which have more or less attended its progress. It is the day on which the first fruits of the College are to be presented to the people of Western India, in the eight young Graduates who are seated before you, and who are now to receive from your hands the justly-earned title of ability to practise the arts of Medicine and Surgery.

On occasions such as this, when well-considered principles have been amply confirmed, and great and important ends have been fully achieved, it is useful and good for us to pause and reflect, and to do honor and homage to the great minds from which they have sprung. In acting thus, we not only indulge in the exercise of a generous sympathy, but we at the same time do that which best conduces to fixing the principles and extending their influence.

If sentiments such as these be true of human actions generally, they are surely very true of all that we contemplate, and all that we perform in this land of our temporary sojourn. Who, I would ask, that has lived for any time in this country, has not witnessed well-digested plans of public good marred in their execution, simply because in the changes of Government and the fluctuations of society the grand principle on which they were based has been forgotten and overlooked, and its place usurped by secondary and subordinate purposes?

I have ventured to suggest this train of reflection, for there is good reason for apprehending that this Medical School is beset with dangers of this very kind, and of no ordinary degree; and I feel that there is a propriety in taking advantage of this hour of its acknowledged triumph, and using my feeble efforts to protect it from the risk of future harm.

Though barely fifteen years have elapsed since the conceptions which led to the establishment of this College first took possession of the enlightened mind of its distinguished founder, and five years only have passed since the courses of instruction were