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London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 10Tu OCTOBER, 1855.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
-L I nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
CANDIDATES at the EXAMINATIONS to be held for the
APPOINTMENT of ASSIST ANT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
the EAST INDIA COMPANY, has teen framed by the Board of
Commissioners for the Affairs of India, under the provisions of the
Act 16th and 17th Viet., cap. 95, sec. 38.
REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF AsIisTANT-SuRGEoN IN THE SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY.
All natural-born subjects of her Majesty between 22 and 28 years
of age, and of seurd bodily health, may be candidates for admission
into the service of the East India Company as Assistant Surgeons.
They must subscribe and send into Dr. Scitt, the Physician to the
Honourable East India Company, 10 days before the period fixed for
each examination, a declaration to the following effect :
"I (Christian and surname at full length), a candidate for em-
ployment as an Assistant-surgeon 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
discharge of the duties of a medical officer ; and I also attest my
readiness to proceed on duty 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 has personally k own him for at least two preceding years.
3. A diploma in surgery, or a degree in medicine, provbied an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such decree, some body
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 month§ the practice and clinical instruction e' the physicians at
some hOligtal, containing at, least, on an average, one hundred in-
patients; br Of bitying attended one Course of 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 the in-
stitutions or wards of an hospital especially devoted to the treat-
ment of ophthalmic dlseise.

Candidates who may not have been able to attend the practice of
an asylum for the insane, or of an ophthalmic hospital, for 3 months
previous to their offering themselves fur examination, will not be
excluded from examination, but will, if successful in obtaining re-
commendation for appointments, be required to produce certificates
of having attended such practice during the interval between the
examination and the tine of proceeding to India.
7. A certificate of h :wing attended a course of lectures on mid-
wi:ery, and of having conducted at least six labours.
8. A certificate of having acquired a practical ki.ovrledge of cup-
ping.
Candidates may also, at their option, send In certificates of attend-
ance at any hospitals, or on any course of lectures, 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 will include the following subjects:—
1. Surgery in all its departments.

2. Medicine, including the di.eases of women and children, The-
rapeutics, Pharmacy', ant Hygiene.

3. Anatomy and Physiology, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zoology.
The following are the books recommended in—
Zoology and Corhparat ye Anatomy—
Outline of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom, by Rymer Jones,
or

Cours Elementaire d'fllstoire Naturelle, par Milne Edwards.
Bot my
Lindley's School Botany, or
Lindley's Elemen s of Botany.

The Exam inat:on will be conducted—

1. By means of written Question and answerT
2. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
mits of such tests.

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 respects will be appointed to fill the requisite
number of appointments as assistant•surgeons in the East India
Company's Service, and, so far as the requirements of the service
will permit, they will have the choice of the Pre-idency in India to
which they shall I e appointed, according to the order of merit in
which they stand on he list resulting from such examination.
All assistant surgeons are required t subscribe to the military or
medial, and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they may he respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
ciety also, :f appointed to Bengal.
All assistant-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 appointmeu-, will be considered as having for-
feited it, unless special circumstances shall justify a departure from
this regulation.
A copy of these regulations, and any further information, may be
obtained on application to the Secretary of the Military Department,
East Ind' s 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 probaWle number of can-
didates to be selected.

The Examiners for Assi.tant Surgeons in the Honourable East
India Company's Service, having received many inquiries as to the
object and extent of the Examinatioa in Comparative Anatomy,
Zoology, and Botany, have considered it desirable to announce that
their objects ire,—

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I. To ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten-
tion to any of these sciences, and are hence quallied 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 lates to acquire an elementary know-
ledge of the structure and affinities of the principal natural families
of Aidnials and of Plants, with the general p an 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 practise in a
tropical climate, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
resources.

The general examination in these scienres will be elementary, and
will embrace a very limited range of technical terms. At the written
examination a considerable number of questions will be put, with
the view of allowing each Candidate to select such subjects as he has
attended to, and, thereby, of enabling the Examiners t' ascertain
the particular departments of science in which the verbal examina-
tion should be conducted.

With those Candidates who have attained proficiency in any branch
of these sciences, the verbal examination will be pursued in the
bran:h selected, so as to ascertain the full extent of their knowledge,

It is now announced that the next examination will be held at
this hotve on the 14th of January next, and succeeding days, and
that the probable number of vacancies in the medical establishment
of the East India Company, to he then filled up, will be twenty-five
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.