The Archive · 1887

PHYSIOLOGY

Tuly L5th.sssevsoeseeseend to 6 pan, 1.—How are fatty matters digested How are they absorbed and what is their use in the economy.

2.—What are the functions of the liver and: what changes take place in the blood passing through that organ.

3.—State the character of healthy urine and give the tests for albumen and sugar.

4.—What change takes place in the blood in its from the right side to the left side of the heart.

How does the change take place 5.—What is meant by the reflex action of the spinal cord. Give examples of this action and state what effect on it you would expect from complete division of the cord above the point at which its phenomena are produced.

6.—What is the normal temperature of the body and how is animal heat produced.

7.—What are the functions of the si 8.—Give the mechanism of cough and hiccough.

B,—Six questions only to be answered.

We have the highest authority for saying that the candidate passed an excellent examination, the marks accorded being as under In Anatomy, 70 out of a possible 100.

Surgery, 70 Chemistry, 80, aes 2 Physiology, 73. or an average of 73.25 out of a possible 100. Circumstances rendered it possible to provide a subject for the anatomical examination yird voce, and considering that he had only been able to study from plans and models, the success of the candidate in this branch' was astonishing and most praiseworthy, and such as to reflect the greatest ible credit on the instruction given him Dr. Myers.

Arrangements are being made for conferring his certificate on the leading foreign officials in Shangh:

at the ceremony. This beginning is necessarily only a small one, but Dr. Myers has proved that the n education can be given to Chinese students in China, and he has sown a seed which may before' long row into a most valuable tree and confer inestimable benefits on China, The inception of the scheme is due to the great statesman, Li, who has already done, and is doing, so much to raise his country in the scale of the great nations of the world. Dr. Myers has taken up and prosecuted the work with full intelligence and unfirm, zealand he may rely of the sympathy of every foreigner in China, and their recognition of the good work he has done, and their cordial wishes for its enlargement and permanent success.

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