Question 2. Give names and forms of different optical lenses with

uses.

Question 3. What effect has change in temperature on the volume of bodies?

Question 4. How do we measure heat?

Question 5. What is meant by atmospheric pressure, and how is it measured?

Question 6. How is static electricity produced?

Question 7. How is dynamic electricity produced?
Question 8. What is meant by the earth's magnetism?

General History.

Question 1. What gave rise to the 30 years war in Germany? Question 2. Under whose reign was the revocation of the Edict of Nantes?

Question 3. When and between whom was the battle of Waterloo ? Question 4. When was the Crimean war, and between whom? Question 5. Why did the American colonists rebel in 1775? Question 6. What ancient people exhibited the greatest intellectual power, and in what respect was the superiority displayed?

Question 7. What nation of antiquity had the widest sway, and the greatest power?

Question 8. How long did the Roman commonwealth last?

English Literature.

Question 1. Was there any distinct Saxon literature, and what? Question 2. Who was the great father of English poetry, and when did he live?

Question 3. What was the name of the next great English poet, and how many years between them?

Question 4. In what reign did Shakespeare live, and who were some of his contemporaries?

Question 5. Who was the great poet of the Reformation (English)? Mention his principal poems.

Question 6. What was the general character of English literature after the restoration of the Stuarts?

Question 7. Mention an age of special literary activity in England, and give the names of the principal authors.

Question 3. What is an exponent? What does a negative exponent denote? What does a fractional exponent denote? What is the value of any quantity which has zero for its exponent? Question 4. Perform the operation indicated in the expression

Question 1. The sum of the angles in any triangle is equal to two right angles. Prove this.

Question 2. If the product of two magnitudes be equal to the product of two other magnitudes, two of thein may be the means and the other two the extremes of a proportion. Prove this.

Question 3. The angle formed by two intersecting chords is how measured?

Question 4. How is the area of a trapezoid measured?

Question 5. The square described on the sum of two lines = ? Question 6. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right angled triangle = ?

Question 7. If in any triangle a line be drawn parallel to the base, how will it divide the sides?

Question 8. If from a point without a circle a tangent and a secant be drawn, what will be the relation between the tangent and secant?

Political Economy.

Question 1. What is money?

Question 2. Give Riccardo's theory of Rent.

Question 3. What is a Bank?

Question 4. What is credit?

Question 5. What is the effect of subdivision of labor upon production?

Moral Philosophy.

Question 1. What is moral philosophy?

Question 2. Is there in consciousness a knowledge of moral distinctions between personal actions, and how proved?

Question 3. What is conscience?

Question 4. What is a moral right?

Question 5. Distinguish between willing, choosing and preferring. Question 6. Why may one man approve an act which another would regard as wrong?

EXAMPLE No. 5.

SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FIRST ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN, HUDSON RIVER STATE HOSPITAL.

Personal.

Give answers on foolscap paper to the following questions in their order, placing the number of the question at the head of each answer, which must be written in ink.

Question 1. Give name in full.
Question 2. Age.

Question 3. Residence.

Question 4. Extent and place of literary education, and if graduated with a degree, give name of institution and date of graduation? Question 5. Extent and place of medical education and date of graduation?

Question 6. What hospital or asylum practice have you had, giving places and length of service with dates?

Question 7. What general medical practice have you had, giving places and dates?

Question 8. Have you had any special experience in the treatment or care of the insane if so, give extent, place and period of such experience?

Question 9. Give any special qualifications you may claim for the position you seek and not included in the previous questions.

N. B.-In the questions following the above, precede each answer with the number of the question, and place at the end of each sheet your desk number and not your name.

General Education —Arithmetic.

Question 1. A commission merchant sold a consignment of cotton for $5,640, and after deducting his commission, and $76.50 for freight, etc., remitted to the consignor $5,422.50 as the net proceeds. What per cent. was his commission?

Question 2. Three men hire a pasture in common, for which they are to pay $26.40. A put in 24 oxen for 8 weeks, B put in 18 oxen for 12 weeks, and C put in 12 oxen for 10 weeks. What should each pay?

Question 3. Sold 30 metres of silk at $2.50 per metre, which was 10 per cent. more than it cost. What did it cost per yard?

Geography.

Question 4. Describe the great systems of fluvial drainage of the United States.

Question 5. Name five of the most important islands in the Indian Ocean.

History.

Question 6. Give an account of the formation and extent of the empire of Alexander the Great and of its subsequent divisions. Question 7. Give some account of the Punic wars.

Question 8. Describe the English revolution of 1688.

Question 9. What causes led to the war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812?

Question 10. Give the main important events in the administration of President Jackson.

English Literature.

Question 11. Name four of the greatest English poets of the first quarter of the 19th century, with names of some of their works and special excellencies of each.

Physical Sciences.

Question 12. Demonstrate the parallelogram of forces. Give an example of its application.

Question 13. Give a general account of the undulatory theory of light.

Question 14. Define organic chemistry and state the general characteristics of the bodies it includes, their constituents, occurrence in nature, etc.

Question 15. What are the evidences of an Ice Period in Geological History What theory is offered to account for it?

Question 16. Name the planets in the order of their distance from the sun.

General Medicine.

Question 1. Describe the human chest-wall anatomically and as an acoustic chamber.

Question 2. Give an account of its diseases.

Question 3. What are the contents of the human chest?

Question 4. Describe the pleura; its connections; its relations; its function; its diseases.

Question 5. Describe the air passages; their anatomy; their function; their diseases.

Question 6. Describe the lungs; their systems of circulation; their minute anatomy; their function.

Question 7. Give a particular account of the diseases of the pleura; their cause; their results; the means of relief and treatment.

Question 8. What part of the respiratory system does catarrh affect? What are its varieties; what are the causes; what are the complications; what is the treatment?

Question 9. Give an account of the different forms of pneumonia; their diagnosis and treatment.

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Question 10. Give an account of the different forms of consumption; their causes; their complications; their diagnosis and treatment. Give the methods of physical diagnosis by auscultation or percussion.

Question 11. Describe the heart and great blood-vessels; their site and relations; their function.

Question 12. Describe the heart, particularly its dual character; its relation to the systems of circulation; its function as a pump. Question 13. Locate the site of the cavities of the heart. Locate the site of the valves.

Question 14. What are the diseases of the heart? How are they diagnosticated?

Question 15. What are the signs of aortic orifice obstruction? Of regurgitation?

Question 16. What are the signs of mitral orifice obstruction? Of regurgitation?

Question 17. What are the physical signs of pericarditis?

Question 18. What are the signs of aneurism of the heart? Of the blood-vessels ?

Question 19. What are the signs of fatty degeneration of the heart?

Question 20. What relation do the diseases of the chest, heart and lungs, bear to diseases of the nervous system?

Question 21. Describe atonic and irritative dyspepsia, nervous dyspepsia and nervous symptoms of lithaemia and oxaluria.

Question 22. What is the treatment of pyrosis, what of ulcer of stomach?

Question 23. State the cause of haematemesis; in diseases of what organs does it occur?

Question 24. Give pathology and causation of cirrhotic, nutmeggy, fatty and waxy liver.

Question 25. State the normal areas of hepatic and splenic dullness. Question 26. Describe cause and pathology of arthritis deformans. Question 27. What is the cause of endemic haematuria; what of chylous urine?

Question 28. Describe the methods of detecting albumen in urine. Question 29. Describe the different forms of Bright's disease (clinical history and pathology).

Question 30. Differentiate uracmic convulsion from epileptic and hysterical convulsion and apoplectic seizure.

Question 31. What specific blood poison is the cause of sudden coma of advanced diabetes mellitus?

Question 32. What pathological changes occur in the eye in Bright's disease, what in diabetes mellitus? Describe them.

Question 33. Give a classification of fevers; state which are endemic, which are epidemic, and the method of communication of each. Question 34. State the normal temperature in mouth, axilla and rectum; describe the line of temperature in the malarial fevers, and in typhus, typhoid and relapsing fevers.