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608 MODERN TIMES.
practical work, and has not Only attended the medical,.
surgical, and obstetric clinics each for two semesters and the
clinic for diseases of the eye for one semester, but also that
he has worked in the clinic for mental diseases" for one
semester, and- has acted as assistant in the policlinic.
The doctor's degree is not connected with this profes-
, sional examination, but is conferred by the medical faculties
on the candidate passing another examination and writing
an essay.
: DENMARK-, NORWAY/ AND SWEDEN,
MEDICAL teaching in •Derfma'rk is organized on the same
plan as in Germany, and Austrja. Medical students on
entering the university of Copenhagen must produce a
^certificate of having passed the "maturity" examination of
a Danish gymnasium • then they apply themselves to the
study of philosophy, the natural sciences, physics and
cheniistry, and are examined in these subjects. , It is only ,
after this that real,medical study begins.
The examinations which have to be passed before a
license to practise is granted take place before the medical
faculty in the presence, of Censors appointed by the
government who deliver judgment upon the candidate's
fitness. The examinations- consist of a part devoted to
paper work, in which the candidate has to write, without *
assistance, of any kind, three essays upon subjects of practical
medicine,;, of a practical'* portion consisting of a dissection,
the examination and treatment of several patients *'
and the performance of an operation on the dead, body J
and of an oral examinatibn^upoh the most important depart-,
ments of medicine. -*
As a general rule it is only those who desire to engage in
academical teaching or to