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516 MODERN TIMES.
examination of patients, the performance of operations on
the dead body, etc.
The candidate who passes these three examinations
receives the license of the Royal College of Physicians.
and the membership diploma of the Royal College of
Surgeons.* Equipped with these certificates he presents
himself to the public as a doctor capable in every respect
and equally trained in all branches of his art. Moreover
each of these two qualifications may be granted by the
corresponding corporation on its own account : f the
examination in this case is easier, inasmuch as less importance
is attached by the one examining body to anatomy
and surgery and by the other to chemistry, physics, physiology
and internal medicine.
Other corporations proceed upon the same plan, granting
diplomas in conjunction with other examining bodies or
independently ; but some boards are satisfied more easily
than others. Thus the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh only requires that the candidate should have
dissected for six months, have attended lectures on physiology
for three, the medical clinic for six, and the surgical
for three months. The examination consists of two portions
; in the first, anatomy, physiology and chemistry, and
in the second, materia medica and pharmacy, general
pathology and pathological anatomy, internal medicine,
surgery, midwifery, forensic medicine and clinical medicine
are the subjects in which the candidate's knowledge is
tested.
The Societies of Apothecaries demand of candidates
that, in addition to having studied medicine, they shall
have devoted special attention to the natural sciences and
* Examining Board in England by the R. College of Phys. of ^.ondon and
theR. C. of Surg, of England, London 1884.
•j- The diploma of Member of the R. College of Surgeons is not now granted
apart from the license of the R. College of Physicians except to students who
commenced their professional studies prior to Oct. 1st, 1884. And the same
may be said mutatis mutandis of the license of the R. College of Physicians.—•
E. II. H.