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PRUSSIA AND *THE GERMAN EMPIRE. 587
making less extensive'dlaims ilpon professional knowledge.
It was conducted in the German language whereas the
university doctors sustained a part of their examination in
Latin. The " surgeons of the second class " got the knowledge
required for their calling partly through the instruction
received from a master of their art, partly by serving
at the military hospitals and infirmaries or by attending a
few lectures at a medical faculty or medico-chirurgical
school. At their examination, which was held by the provincial
medical colleges, they were required to answer on
paper, without assistance, three questions upon general
points in physiology, materia medica et chirurgica, and the
art of prescribing, upon the means of resuscitating the
apparently dead, the assistance to be rendered in sudden
accidents, the provisional measures to be taken on the outbreak
of epidemics, etc. ; they were also asked to give • a
demonstration of the situs viscerum, to make a dissection^'
and to explain preparations placed before them, to perform,
a small operation on the dead body, to apply a bandage .
and to diagnose frequently occurring pathological conditions -^.y
such as inflammation, suppuration, hernia, fractures • an