State the principal variations found in the kidneys procured at
Evans’s and the Coal Hole; and likewise name the proportion
of animal fibre in the rump-steaks of the above resorts. Mention,
likewise, the change produced in the albumen, or white of
an egg, by poaching it upon toast.
Describe the comparative circulation of blood in the body, and
of the Lancet, Medical Gazette, and Bell’s Life
in London, in the hospitals; and mention if Sir Charles Bell,
the author of the “Bridgewater Treatise on the Hand,”
is the editor of the last-named paper.
MEDICINE.
You are called to a fellow-student taken suddenly ill. You find
him lying on his back in the fender; his eyes open, his pulse full,
and his breathing stertorous. His mind appears hysterically
wandering, prompting various windmill-like motions of his arms, and
an accompanying lyrical intimation that he, and certain imaginary
friends, have no intention of going home until the appearance of
day-break. State the probable disease; and also what pathological
change would be likely to be effected by putting his head under the
cock of the cistern.
Was the Mount Hecla at the Surrey Zoological Gardens classed by
Bateman in his work upon skin diseases—if so, what kind of
eruption did it come under? Where was the greatest irritation
produced—in the scaffold-work of the erection, or the bosom
of the gentleman who lived next to the gardens, and had a private
exhibition of rockets every night, as they fell through his
skylight, and burst upon the stairs?
Which is the most powerful narcotic—opium, henbane, or a
lecture upon practice of physic; and will a moderate dose of
antimonial wine sweat a man as much as an examination at
Apothecaries’ Hall?
CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Does any chemical combination take place between the porter and
ale in a pot of half-and-half upon mixture? Is there a galvanic
current set up between the pewter and the beer capable of
destroying the equilibrium of living bodies.
Explain the philosophical meaning of the
sentence—“He cut away from the crushers as quick as a
flash of lightning through a gooseberry-bush.”
There are two kinds of electricity, positive and negative; and
these have a pugnacious tendency. A, a student, goes up to
the College positive he shall pass; B, an
examiner, thinks his abilities negative, and flummuxes him
accordingly. A afterwards meets B alone, in a
retired spot, where there is no policeman, and, to use his own
expression, “takes out the change” upon B. In
this case, which receives the greatest
shock—A’s “grinder,” at hearing
his pupil was plucked, or B for doing it?
The more crowded an assembly is, the greater quantity of
carbonic acid is evolved by its component members. State, upon
actual experience, the per centage of this gas in the
atmosphere of the following places:—The Concerts
d’Eté, the Swan in Hungerford Market, the pit of the
Adelphi, Hunt’s Billiard Rooms, and the Colosseum during the
period of its balls.
ANIMAL ECONOMY.
Mention the most liberal pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood of
Guy’s and Bartholomew’s; and state under what head of
diseases you class the spring outbreak of dissecting cases and
tooth-drawing instruments in their windows.
Mention the cheapest tailors in the metropolis, and especially
name those who charge you three pounds for dress coats (“best
Saxony, any other colour than blue or black”), and write down
five in the bills to send to your governor. Describe the anatomical
difference between a peacoat, a spencer, and a Taglioni, and also
state who gave the best “prish” for old ones.
