Bower. In the case of the "American Anthropological University of St. Louis, Mo., an institution alleged to be engaged in the sale of diplomas, the Secretary presented communications from the Hon. John Eaton, commissioner of education, from Geo. W. Curry, county clerk of Brown county, and from Dr. W. W. Bower, of Mt. Sterling, the latter charged with being one of the incorporators and officers of the so-called University. The complaint was formally made. through Commissioner Eaton, on charges recently preferred, that diplomas conferring various degrees, medical, scientific, literary, etc., were being sold by agents of the "University" in England and Scotland. An exculpatory letter from Dr. Bower was read, and the Secretary instructed to forward a copy of the same to Commissioner Eaton, with the request that he furnish the BOARD with any original documentary evidence in his possession, tending to fix complicity with the actual sale of diplomas upon said Bower.

DURING the regular business session of Friday, a large number of the more important communications received during the quarter were presented, and the action taken thereon was submitted to the BOARD. The Secretary was authorized to attend the conference of representatives of State Boards of Health to be held in the city of Washington during the month of May, prox. He was also empowered to examine applicants for certificates, who were graduates of colleges which had not complied with the requirements of the BOARD; such examination to be confined to the branches omitted by the college in question; and upon any of said candidates passing a satisfactory examination in such branch or branches, he shall be adjudged entitled to the certificate of the Board.

The Auditing Committee reported that it had examined bills amounting to $2,664.80, and found the same to be correct.

The remaining hours of the session were devoted to the examination, and rating of the answers of candidates; at the conclusion of which, the Secretary reported that only two of those who had undergone the full examination, had obtained the required percentages entitling to pass, and that both of these, namely: Clifton Scott, of Dixon, and H. W. Springer, of Hardin, already held diplomas from medical colleges-the Kentucky School of Medicine, and the St. Louis Eclectic Medical College, respectively.

SCHEDULE OF QUESTIONS AT THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION, APRIL, 1884. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Describe:

1. A vertebra.

EXAMINATION IN ANATOMY-BY W. A. HASKELL, M. D.

2. The lachrymal duct.

3. The valves of the heart.

4. The cerebellum.

5. The brachial plexus.

6. The bladder.

7. Give boundaries and contents of Scarpa's triangle.

8. Give the relation of the muscles, arteries, veins and nerves of the leg at the junction

of the middle and lower thirds.

9. What ribs are covered by the scapula?

10. Name the contents of the right hypochondriac region.

EXAMINATION IN PHYSIOLOGY-BY W. R. MACKENZIE, M. D.

1. What is an ultimate element, and how many are found in man?

2. What is a proximate principle?

3. What is the composition of water, and what proportion of the human body does it constitute?

4. How many varieties of sugar originate in the interior of the body?

5. What is understood by catalysis?

6. How many digestive fluids does the food meet with during its digestion?

7. Give their names, origins and uses.

8. Is digestion a simple chemical process?

9. In bread what portion is digested, and what lef: unchanged, by pepsin?

10. Where is starch chiefly digested, and by what agents?

11. How are fatty matters taken up, and in what form?

12. Where does cholesterin originate? Is it excreted?

13. What is the proportion of blood to the weight of the body?.

14. What is the extent of the respiratory surface in both lungs?

15. Does carbonic acid exist ready formed in the venous blood before its entrance into the lungs?

EXAMINATION IN CHEMISTRY-BY A. L. CLARK, M. D.

What is the metric unit of meas

1. What is latent heat?

2. With what nation originated the metric system?

urement? Whence is this unit derived, and what is its length in inches?

3. What is meant by "water of crystalization"?

4. Define an acid and give its properties.

5. Define an alkali and give its properties.

6. What is a pentad?

7. At what point in the centigrade scale is zero, and at what temperature does water boil?

8. Why is the center of the flame of a candle dark?

9. At what temperature is water most dense?

10. What is specific gravity?

11. What is Hg2C12?

12. What is the law of Avogadro?

13. Name the primary colors in their order.

14. Give the chemical symbols for eight elementary substances.

15. Give the chemical symbol for ammonia.

EXAMINATION IN PATHOLOGY-BY R. LUDLAM, M. D.

1. Define anemia.

2. Describe the general pathology of fever.

3. What is hypertrophy? Atrophy?

4. What is compensating hypertrophy?

5. Define the most important diatheses.

6. Describe the pathological conditions in cerebral apoplexy.

7. What is the pathological significance of dropsy?

8. Give the pathology of hemi-anesthesia.

9. In pneumonic hepatization where will chloride of sodium be found if deficient in the urine?

10. At what stage of intermittent fever would you find the highest temperature?

EXAMINATION IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE-BY W. R. MACKENZIE, M. D.

1. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of anemia.

2. In which sex is anemia the more frequent, and does it ever prove fatal? 3. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of leucocythemia.

4. With what disease is it constantly associated.

5. What is hyperinosis, and under what circumstances does it occur?
6. Why is there danger of heart disease in acute articular rheumatism?

7. Why are mineral acids supposed to be indicated in continued fevers?

8. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of pneumonia.

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10.

11.

12.

In the treatment of pneumonia are expectorants, as a rule, indicated?

How would you undertake to control abnormally high temperature in continued fevers?

Name the continued fevers?

What is the most common vehicle of typhoid poison, and what are the special characteristic lesions in typhoid fever?

13. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of pernicious intermittent fever. 14. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of simple intermittent, simple remittent, and so-called "typho-malarial" fevers.

15. Give the pathology, symptoms and treatment of gastritis, gastro-duodenitis, enteritis and colitis.

EXAMINATION IN SURGERY-BY W. A. HASKELL, M. D.

Describe

1. In detail the passage of the male catheter.

2. Ligation of the radial artery at its middle.

3. An operation for in-growing toe-nail.

4. Tracheotomy.

5. Give the differential diagnosis of periostitis of the femur, and of the third degree of morbus coxarius.

6. Name the tumors developed in the inguinal region and scrotum with which an inguíno-scrotal hernia may be confounded, and give their differential diagnosis.

7. Give the symptoms and treatment of acute tympanitis.

8. What is meant by the antiseptic treatment of wounds?

9. A middle-aged man has a tumor of the left side of the scrotum; ovoidal in shape, elastic, fluctuating, and slightly translucent. Examination with an exploring trocar shows it to contain a yellowish fluid, coagulable by heat, and in which spermatozoa are found. Give diagnosis and treatment, with reasons for both. 10. Give the differential diagnosis of compression and concussion of the brain, and treatment of each.

EXAMINATION IN OBSTETRICS BY A. L. CLARK, M. D.

1. Name all the female organs of generation.

2. What is extra-uterine pregnancy, and give the treatment?

3. Describe laparo-elytrotomy, and give its advantages and disadvantages.

4. Give treatment for hemorrhage in the three stages of labor.

5. Give the symptoms and treatment of short umbilical cord.

6. Give the mechanism of labor in the L. O. A. position.

7. Give the signs of pregnancy present during the first two months; also the first positiv sign.

8. Define abortion.

9. What circumstances justify craniotomy?

10. Give name and length of the largest diameter of the superior strait.

11. What is involution of the uterus, and in what time is it normally accomplished?

12. 'Give differential diagnosis between phlegmasia dolens and rheumatism.

13. Give diagnosis and treatment of rupture of the uterus during parturition.

14. Name the longest diameter of the foetal head.

15. Give the differential diagnosis between puerperal and epileptic convulsions.

EXAMINATION IN GYNECOLOGY-BY R. LUDLAM, M. D.

1. What critical periods are the most important in the clinical history of woman?

2. Describe the symptoms of chlorosis.

3. What is the treatment for obstructive dysmenorrhea?

4. How does abortion lead to uterine displacements?

5. What is the globus hystericus and its cause?

6. What class of women is most subject to chronic netritis.

7. Give the causes of sub-involution of the uterus and its sequelæ.

8. What form of inflammation usually precedes puerperal peritonitis?

9.

In the puerperal state what disease precedes uterine phlebitis?

10. How would you distinguish between puerperal mania and the mania of cerebritis or meningitis?

EXAMINATION IN MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS-BY JOHN H. RAUCH, M. D.

1. Describe the mode of action of expectorants; name some of the principal ones. 2. What is perchloride of iron? Give its principal therapeutic uses.

3. Mention two or more substances which are therapeutically incompatible, and two or more which are pharmaceutically incompatible.

4. In the administration of hypodermic injections what general precautions should be observed; and as between the same agents administered by ingestion and hypodermically, what are the relative doses of sulphate of atropia, physostigma, ergotin, sulphate of morphia, pilocarpin?

5. What difference for ages is made in the doses of remedies?

6. Give the number of fluidrachms in a teaspoonful-a dessertspoonful-a tablespoonful-a wineglassful.

7. What are the varieties of electricity used therapeutically; their characteristics, and some of the principal diseases to which each variety is applicable.

8. What are the abstracta of the Pharmacopeia of 1880.

9. Mention remedies for albuminuria, ascarides, bronchitis, chorea, constipation, dysentery, erysipelas, gonorrhea, rheumatism.

10. Name the cinchona alkaloids, and state their relative values.

11. What are the principal indigenous vegetable remedies of your own locality? Give the officinal names and parts of the plants used.

12. What articles commonly found in every household may be used therapeutically? State their respective uses for such purpose.

13. Describe the therapeutic indications and give the average adult doses of oil of turpentine, muriate of ammonia, fluid extract of gelsemium, chloral-hydrate, iodoform, podophyllin, dilute hydrocyanic acid, tincture of veratrum.

14. Mention some of the more important recent additions to the materia medica, with their respective uses.

15. Give the officinal and the common names of the plant from which podophyllin is derived, the part or parts used, and its medicinal properties.

16. What articles are used instead of quinia as antiperiodics, and under what circumstances?

17. Describe the toxicological effects of opium; belladonna; digitalis; corrosive sublimate; oxalic acid;-and indicate the appropriate treatment to counteract such effects.

18.

Complete the following skeleton prescriptions, and state the indications for each:

EXAMINATION IN HYGIENE-BY JOHN H. RAUCH, M. D.

1. What is meant by death-rate, and how is it computed?

2. During what quinquennial period is there the greatest mortality, and to what causes is such mortality due?

3. What are the prevalent preventable diseases at each season of the year, and what general precautions against such should be observed?

4. What is the most common cause of preventable disease?

5. Give the differential diagnosis of small-pox; of chicken-pox; of measles; of scarlet fever.

6. Describe the operation and phenomena of vaccination, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of humanized and of bovine virus.

7. How often should vaccination be repeated, and why?

8. What would you do, as the chief sanitary authority of a city or town, in case of a threatened pestilence, taking into consideration each of the diseases which have assumed an epidemic form in this country during the last fifty years?

9. Mention the principal disinfectants, describe their action and modes of application.

10. What is the permanganate of potash test for a suspected water?

11. What is the distinguishing characteristic of sewage-contaminated water?

12. What influence has the geological character of a region upon life and health?

13. What relations do the meteorological conditions bear to health?

14. Give the life-history of the trichina spiralis, and state how the vitality of the parasite is lost, or may be destroyed.

15. What diseases of animals may be communicated to human beings?

EXAMINATION IN MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE-BY JOHN H. RAUCH, M. D.

1. Define medical jurisprudence.

2. What are the three important points to observe, with reference to the subject, in conducting a postmortem for legal purposes?

3. What portions of the body would you select for a chemical examination in a case of suspected poisoning?

4. What are the indications of viability in the fœtus?

5. What important legal bearing has the collection of vital statistics?

The following was suggested by the President of the BOARD as the basis of an

EXAMINATION IN THE FUNDAMENTAL ENGLISH BRANCHES-BY NEWTON BATEMAN, LL. D. I. ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

Write an essay, to contain not less than 900 words. Subject-Abraham Lincoln. II. HISTORY.

Name, in order, the Presidents from Washington to Arthur, with dates. Name the States from which each came; length of service; chief official acts, and most important National events occurring in the administration of each.