A guide to the examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the diplomas of Member and Fellow / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Gant, Frederick James, 1825-1905.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A guide to the examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the diplomas of Member and Fellow / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a series of recent dissections and anatomical preparations of dissection, the latter under spirit in flat glass receptacles, showing the regional and visceral anatomy of the body. The latter department of anatomy is supplemented by ordinary museum preparations arranged around the room. Textural anatomy, and the minute structure of organs, are provided for by four microscopes, and a useful series of microscopic preparations. At each table two examiners are engaged with a student or candidate for diploma. The general features of this anatomical examination may be here noted. It is essentially ohjedive. Accordingly the questions asked are princi])ally in the form of What s this?” the examiner pointing at the same time to the object of his query. It will be evident that by this mode of examination a”wide range of matter can be gone over in a limited time, as well as thus eliciting the student s knowledge of anatomical objects and facts. Occasionally only, the student is asked to describe an object before him; for that would imply the power of describing, and a facility of descriptive language, neither of wliicli might be readily at command under the trying circumstances of an examination. ^ _ An enumeration of the following senes of dissections and preparations will suffice to indicate the principal objects by which the candidate’s practical knowledge ot anatomy is tested. , • Beqional Anatomy.—^Triangles of the neck, showing primiipally the relation and distribution of the blood- vessels ; parotid region and side of the cheek, showing the course and opening of Stenson’s duct; ompital region, showing the deep muscles, recti and obhqui; anatomy of the axilla; bend of the elbow; palm of the hand • Scai-pa’s triangle, showing the relation and dis- tribution of the femoral vessels and anterior crural nerve; popliteal region, showing its boundaries, and the relation Ld course of the popliteal vessels and ne^es ; sole of the ioot—Liqamnnts: Temporo-maxillary articulation, liga- ments, and inter-articular cartilage; a section mew Articulations and ligaments of the first two vertebrae, one with the other, and as connected with the occipital bone; articulations and f shoiilder-joint, elbow-joint, ligaments of the wnst a,nd! hand • hip-joint, knee-joint, showing the relative position, of the crucial ligaments; head of the tibia, with the semilunar cartilages, showing their relative shape and