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.
