The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

No. 19,667.]

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1855.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
CANDIDATE, at• the EXAMINATION'S 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 D.dia, under the in o‘isions of the
Act 16th and 17th Vitt., cap. 95, sec. 38.
REGULATIONS FOR TUE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF AS. STANT-SURGEON IN THE 'EE VICE OF THE LAST INDIA
COMPANY.

All natural-born subjects of her Majesty between 22 and 28 years
of age, and of sou, d bodily health, may be candidates for fomission
into the service of the East India Company as Assistant Surgeons.
They must subscribe and send into Dr. Sc tt, the Physician to the
Honourable East India Company, 10 days before the Period fixed for
each examination, a declaration to the blowing effect :
"I (clirtsti in and surname at full length), a candidate for em
ployment as an Assistant-surgebn in tie service of the East India
Company, do hereby deciar., that I was years of age on the
day of last, and that I labottr under no constitu-
tional disease or physical disability that ran interfere with the due
dkharge of the duties of 4 a medical officer ; and I slso attest my
readiness to proceed on duty to India within thr,e months of receiv-
ing* my appointment."

This declaration must be accompanied by the following docu-
ments:—

1. Pronf of age, either by extract from the register of the parish
in whieb the candidate was born, or.by his own declaration pursuant
to the Act b and 6 Wm. IV., c 62.

2. A certificate of moral character from a magistrate, or a minis-
ter of the nlig:ous denomination to which the candidate belongs,
who has p.Tsomilly k own him for at least two preceding years.
3. A diploma in surgery, or a degree in medicine, provi ed an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such degree, from some body
competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.

4.-A certificate of li,;ingattcnde,:ltwo courses at lecTures, o' six
months each, on the practice of physic. a❑d of having attended for
six months the practice a,4 clinlcal instruction of the h3sicians at
some hospital, containing at least, on an average,_ one hundred in-
patients ; or of having attended one mans of lectures of six months
on the practice of phy,ic, 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 fir three months one of the in-
stitutions or wards of an r,ospital especially devoted to the treat-
ment of ophthalmic disease.
Candidates who may not have been'ablejo attend the practice of
an a..ylum for the Insane, or of an oplith.i nic hospital, for 3 months
previous to their onring themselves for examination, will .not be
excluded from examination, but will, if successful. in ab:aining re-
commendation for appointments, be required to produce certificates
of having attended such practice during the interval between the
examina•Ht and the tine of proceeding to India.
7. A certificate of h ,wing atte,,d,d a course of lectures on mid-
wifery, and of having conducte t st least six labours.
5. A certificate of having acquired a practical ki 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-es, in addition to the
above. Attendance on a course of military surgery, and the practi-
cal study of surgi al operations on the dead body, are recommended.
The Examination w 11 include the following subjects :
1. Sorcery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, Including the di-eases of women and children, The-
rapeutics, Pharmacy, an i Hygiene.
3. Anatomy and Phi Biology, including Comparative Anatomy.

4. Naturarilistory, including Botany and biology.
The following are the books recommended in—
Zoology and Comparat ye Anatomy— _ _

Outline of the structure of the Animal Kingdom, by RymerJones,

Cows Elementaire d'Histolre Naturelle, par Milne Edwards.
Botany—

Lindley's School Botany, or
Lindley's Elemen s of Botany.
The Exa4,inat on will bo conducted—

1. By means of written question, and answers.
2. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
nags 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 be pronounced by the examiners to be the
best qualified in all re?pects will be appointed to fill the requisite
number of nnpoimments as assistant surgeons in the East India
Compiiny's Service, and, so tar as the requirements ,f the service
will permit, they will have the choice of the I're idencyin India to
which they shall ••e appointed. accord ng to the order of merit in
which they stand on .he list resitting from such examination.
All a.sistant-surgeons are required t subscribe to the military or
media% and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they may he respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
ciety auto, f appointed to tienzal.
All assistant-surgeons who shall neglect or ref Use to proceed to
India under the orders of the Court of Di ectors, within three months
from the date of thdr appolotmen , will be onsidered as hay ng for-
feited it. unless special circumstances shalt jibtify a di.parture from
this regulation. . _

A copy of these regulations, and any further information. may be
nhta ned on application to the Secretary of the Military Department,
East Ind! House.
The e .umm dions will fake place in the months of January and
Juts• in sac', year; and due notice will be given by putslic Adver-
tisement of the d ty, appointed, and of the probafele nutober of can-
didates to be selected.
The Fxaminers for A saiQtant Surgeons in the Honourab'e East
India Company's Servi e, having received many inqui,tes as to tie
object and extent of the Examinatioa in comparative Anatomy,
Zoology, and Botany. have considered it destra,,lo to announce that
their objects re,--
I. To ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten-
tion to any of these sciences, are hence quaff fled to undertake
duties requiring a knowlefige 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 iates to Require an elementary know-
ledge of the structure and affinities of the principal natural families
of Animals and of Plants, with the general p,an upon which these
are constructed, and the functions and relations of their most Ltiper-
tent 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 pr• perly cultivated, by
means of ioecimens, 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 practise in a
tropical climate, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
resources.

The general examination in these sciences will be eementary, and
will embrace a very limited range of technical terms. At he written
examination a considerable number of questions will be put, with
the view of allowing each Candidate to scle,t such sat jects as he has
attended to, and, thereby, of enabling the Examin,rs to ascertain
the pa, titular denaitments of science in which the verbal examina-
tion should be conducted. -

With those Candidates who have attained pr,ficiency in any branch
of these science?, the verbal examination will be pursued in the
brawl' selected,so as to ascertain the full extent of their knowledge.
It is now announced that the next examination will be held at
this hou,e on the 14th of January next, and ucceeding days, and
that the prohabie number of vacancies in the medical establishment
of the East India Company, to be then filled up, will he twenty-five.
• JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.