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London, England, 1854-10-08 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 9TH Ana. AND 4TH OCT., 1854.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the ADMISSION of
CANDIDATES at the FlitsT EXAMINATION, to be held in
.Tanrary next, for the APPOINTMENT of ASSISTANT SUR-
GEONS 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,
see. 38. .
ItEGI7LATIONS POE TILE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF ASSISTANT•SURGEON IN THE SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA

COMPANY. •
All natural-born subjects of her Majesty may be candidates for
admission into the service of the East India Company as Assistant-
Surgeons. They must, however, be between 22 and 28 years of age,
and of sound bodily health.
They must subscribe and send into Dr. Sc,tt, the Physician to the
Honourable East India Company, before the 10th day of December,
1854, a declaration to the fo lowing effect:—
"I (christi.n and surname at full length), a candidate for ern•
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
rcaeitnuss 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 diploma in surgery, or a degree in medicine, provided an ex-
amination in surgery be required for such degree, from some body
competent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.
3. A certificate of having attended two courses of lectures, or six
months each, on the practice of physic. and of having attended for
six months the practice and clinical instruction or the physicians at
some hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred in-
patients; or of having attended one course or' lectures of six months
on the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months.
4. 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.
5. 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 disease.
6. A certificate of having attended a course of lectures on mid-
wifery, and of having conducted at least six labours.
7. A certificate of having acquired a practical ktowledge of cup-
Ping.
Candidates may also, at their option, send in certificates of attend-
ance at any hospitals, or any courses of lectures in addition to the
above. Attendance on a course of military surgery is recommended.
Candidates producing satisfactory certificates will be adwitted to
an examination to be held in January, 1855.
The examination will include the following subjects :-
1. Surzery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, including the Diseases of Women and Children,
Theraueutics, Pharmacy, and Hygiene. . .

3. Anatomy and Physiology, including Comparative Anatomy.
4. Natural History, including Botany and Zoology.

The examination will be conducted :--

1. By means of written questions and answers.

2. By object examinations and experiments, when the subject ad-
mits of such tests.

3. By practical examination at the bedside of the patient, and by
disseetionS anti operations on the dead body.
4. By viva voce examination.
The persons who shall be pronounced by the examiners to be the
best qdalified in all respects shall be appointed to fill the requisite
member of annointments as assistant surgeons in the East India
Company's service.
Alf assistant surgeons are required to subscribe to the Military or
Medical, and Medical retiring funds at the Presidencies to which
they may be respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan
Society also, if appointed to Bengal.
All assistant surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to
India under the orders of the Court of Directors, within three months
from the date of their appointment, will be considered as having for-
Jetted them, unless special circumstances shall justify a departure
from this regulation.
Carriidates may apply to Dr. Scott, 13, Stratton-street, for further
information if needed. . .

N.B. The certificates and notices as to examination herein con-
tained apply only to the examination to be held in January next.

Regulations regarding cite requirements of Candidates for future
examinations will be issued afte • the first examination.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

NOTE.-4th October, 1853.—Candidates who may not have been
able to attend the practice of an asylum for the insane, or of an
•phthalmic hospital, for three months previous to cffering themselves
tor examination in January, 1855, will not be excluded from exami-
nation, but will if successful in obtaining recommendation for appoint-
ments, be required to produce certificates of having attended such
practice during the interval between the examination and the time
of proceeding to India.
The Board of Examiners of Candidates for the appointment of
Assistant Surgeons in the East India Company's service, give notice
that on the Bth January, 1855, they will hpld Examinations at the
East India House for the selection of Assistant Surgeons. The selec-
tion will be made according to merit, and it is expected that about
30 appointments will be awarded.
J. D. DICIINSON, Deputy Secretary.