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The 1902 Examination Paper on Principles and Practice of Medicine, Hyperlinked

by Daniel P. Wirt, M.D.

1. Who was Mephibosheth? What parental superstition dates from his time?
   
   
2. What is "one of the saddest chapters in the history of human deception"?
   
   
3. Give Osler's quotations from the following authors.
   
   a. John Bunyan
   b. Byron
   c. John Cheyne
   d. George Cheyne
   e. Montaigne
   
   Explain the context where necessary.
   
   
4. Describe, if necessary, with the aid of diagrams, Kemp's double current rectal tubes. What are the indications for their employment?
   
   
5. Give in full the name of "the distinguished old Bath physician." At what period did he flourish, and what is his claim to distinction?
   
   
6. As a sequence to what therapeutic procedure did the son of Professor Langerhans die? What was the pathologic and medicolegal interest in the case?
   
   
7. What is the chief recorded complication of a lay committee meeting at St. George's Hospital?
   
   
8. Who was convinced that more wise men than fools are victims of gout? Is there any reason why he in particular should hold that view?
   
   
9. What cases drift to "museums and side-shows"?
   
   
10. How did Trousseau's patient make money?
    
    
11. What celebrated English physician preferred to die in harness? State the cause of death.
    
    
12. What internal evidence is there ---
    
    a. That Osler has had an unhappy experience with cheap bicycles?
    b. That he is interested in the history of Napoleon Bonaparte?
    
    
13. What is O. Rosenbach's dictum on the custom of wearing stays?
    
    
14. Quote Hunter's famous advice to Jenner.
    
    
15. What was the counsel of Rondibilis to Panurge?
    
    
16. How did Eryximachus treat the hiccough of Aristophanes?
    
    
17. Give the references to
    
    a. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
    b. President Jefferson,
    c. Jerome Cardan,
    d. The Elder Scaliger,
    e. Captain Catlin,
    f. Laurence Sterne,
    g. Thomas King Chambers,
    h. Robert Druitt, and
    i. Colonel Townshend.
    
    
18. What did Strabo call "the lisping of the gout?"
    
    
19. Give the context of the following quotations, and make explanatory remarks if necessary:
    
    a. Cases are given after nearly every one of the specific diseases.
    b. I saw some years ago one of the most distinguished gynecologists of Germany perform laparotomy in a case of
        this kind.
    c. The doses given by the late Alonzo Clark, of New York, may be truly termed heroic.
    d. In a somewhat varied postmortem and clinical experience no instance has fallen under my observation.
    e. A history of gorging with peanuts.
    f. I have seen Murchison himself in doubt.
    g. A toad-like caricature of humanity.
    h. From the accurate view of Laennec and Louis the profession was led away by Graves, and particularly by
       Niemeyer.
    i. One of the most powerful enemies of the American stomach at the present day.
    j. I had a lesson in this matter which I have never forgotton.
    
    
20. Who was Van Helmont and when did he live? Give a brief account of his opinion on contemporary medicine.
    
    
21. Who made an autopsy on Dean Swift and what did he report?
    
    
22. What interest attaches to these references?
    
    a. The Pullman car conductor from Chicago
    b. The Appleton-Swain family
    c. Yellow cakes at Philadelphia
    d. Chancellor Ferrier
    e. Master McGrath
    f. Renforth, the oarsman
    g. Shattock's patient
    
    
23. Who had a translucent head? What was the pathology of the condition?
    
    
24. On what occasion was a surgeon entrapped by a neurotic physician?