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—"" EAST INDIA HOUSE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1855.
INTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
CANDIDATEs at the EX AMIN.ATIONA to be held for the
APPOINTMENT of ASSISTANT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
the EAST INDIA COMPANY, has t een framed by the Board of
Commissioners for the Affairs of India, under the provisions of the
Act 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 95, sec. 38.
REGULATIONS FOR TILE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF ASSISTANT-SURGEON IN•THE SERVICE OF THE LAST INDIA
COMPANY.
All natural-born subjects of her Majesty between 22 and 28 years
of age, and of sourd bodily health, may be candidates for aamisslon
into the service of the East India Company as Assistant Sure,eoni.
They must subscribe and ,end into Gr. Sc tt, the Physician to the
Honourable East India Company, 10 days before the period fixed for
each examination, a declaration to the tolowing effect :
" I (Christina and surname at full length), a candidate for em
ployment as an Assistant-!=urgeon in the service of the East India
Company, do hereby declare, that I was years of age on the
day of last, and that I labour under no constitu-
tional disease or physical disability that can interfere with the due
di-charge of the duties of a medical officer ; and I also attest my
readiness to proceed on
guty to India within three Months of receiv-
ing my appointment."
This declaration must be accompanied by the following docu-
ments :
I. Proof of age, either by extract from the register of the parish
in which the candidate Was born, or by his own declaration pursuant
to the Act 5 and 6 Wm. IV., c 62.
2. A certificate of moral character from a magistrate, or a minis-
ter of the religious denomination to which the candidate belongs,
who hai personally k own him for at least two preceding years.
3. A diploma in surgery, o" a degree in medicine, provtled an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such degree, from some bpdy
competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.
4. A certificate of having attended two courses of lectures, o" six
months each, on the practice of physic, and of having attended for
six months the practice sod clinical instruction 0-• the ohysicians at
some hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred
.in-
patients ; or of having attended one cour,e or lectures of six months
on the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months.
5. A certificate of having attend d for three months the practical
instruction given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of
the insane.

6. A certificate of having attended for three months one of thein-
stitutions or wards of an hospital, especially devoted to the treat-
ment of ophthalmic dise Ise.
Candidates who may not have been able to attend the practice of
an asylum for the insane, or of an ephttod nic hospital, for 3 months
previous to their offering thtomaelves for examination, will not IN,
excluded from examination; but will, if successful in übta'ning re-
commendation for appointments, be reqtfired to produce eertificates
of having attended such praCtice during the interval between the
examina,l. n and the tine of proceeding to India. •
7. A certificate of h .wing attehdid a course of lectures on m!d-
wi'ery, and of having conducto I atleast six labours.
8. A certificate of having acquired a practical k, owledge of cup-
ping.
Candidates may also, at their option, send In certificates of attend-
ance at any hospitals, or on any course of lectu-•,s, in addition to the
above. Attendance on a course of military surgery, and the pradtl;
cal study of surgi al cperatons on the dead body, are recommended.
The Examiruttion w 11 include the following subjects:-
1. Surgery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, including the di• eases of women and children, The,
rapentics, Pharmacy, au , Hygiene.
3. Anatomy and Ph} &dozy, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zo
The rollowing are the hooks recommended in—
Zoology and Comparat ye Anatomy— -
Outline of the structure of the Animal Kingdom by Rymer Jones,
or

Coors Elemcutaire d'Histoire Naturelle, par Milne Edwards.
Botany—
Lindley's School Botany, or
Lindley's Elemen-s of Botany.
The Extprinat on will be conducted—
!. By means of written question. and answers
2. r>y nbiect examinations and experanents, when the subject ad,
mitt of such teats.

3• By practical examination of patients, and by operations on the
dead body.

4 By viva voce examination.
The persons who shall tie pronounced by the examirers to 131 the
best qualified in all respects wid be appointed to fill the requisite
numher of appointments as assistant-surgeons it: the East India
Compsny's Service, and, so far as the requirements of the service
will permit-, they wilt have the choice of the'Pre•idency In India to
which they shall e appointed, accord n 4 to the order of merit in
which they stand on 'he list resulting from sdcti examination.
All aisistant•surceons arc• required t subscribe to the military or
media), and medical retiring tends, at the presidencies to which
they may he respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
ciety also, if appointed to Bennil.

All waistant-surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to
India under the orders of the Court of Di ectors, within three months
from the date of their apnointm.n , will be s cluttered as having for-
feited it, unle-s special circumstances shall justify a cl..parture from
this regulation.
A copy of these regulations, and any further information, may be
ohtalned on application to the Secretary of the Military Department,
East I ndi., House.
The examinations will take place in the months of January and
July in each year; and due notice will be given by public adver-
tisement of the days appointed, and of the probable number of can-
didates to be selected.
The Examiners for Assictant Surgeons in the Honourable East
India Company's Servie. having received many inquiries as to the
object and extent of the Examination in comparative Anatomy,
Zoology, and Botany, have considered it desirat.le to announce that
their objects ere,—
I. To ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten-
tion to any of these sciences, and are hence qual fled to undertake
duties requiring a knowledge of them, as well as the general duties
of their profession.' Proficiency in these sciences will, in classifying
the Candidates by merit, be entitled to great consideration.
2. To encourage all Candi sates to acquire an elementary know-
ledge of the structure and affinities of the principal natural families
of A. dmais and of Plants, with the general plan upon which these
are constructed, and the functions and relations of their most impor-
tant organs.

3. To promote the study of Natural History as a most important
adjunct or preliminary to a liberal medical education; that of Com-
parative Anatomy, Zoology, or Botany, if properly cultivated, by
means of specimens, for even a short period, being eminently calcu-
lated to develope habits of close observation, and to strengthen those
powers of reasoning upon observed facts. which must be habitually
exercised by medical men everywhere, but which must be exercised
with the greatest energy and promptitude by those who pract.se in a
tropical climate, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
resourr.s.
The general examination in these scienres will be elementary, and
will embrace a very limited range of techweal terms. At he written
examination a considerable ',umber of ques'ions will be put, with
the view of allowing each Candidate to select such sutiects as he has
attended to, and, thereby; of enabling the Examiners to ascertain
the particular departments of science in which the verbal examina•
tion should be conducted.

With those Candidates who have attained prAtiency in any branch
of these acience,=, the verbal examination will be pursued in the
branth selected,so as to asoertain the full extent of their knowledge.
It Is now announced that the next examination will be held at
this fictive on the 14th of January next, and ucceeding days, and
that' he prohabte number of vacancies in the medical establishment
of the East India Company, to be thee filled up, will he twenty-flVe
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

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