HOSPITAL ATTENDANCE.

Three Courses of nine months' attendance on the Clinical Lectures of Sir Patrick Dun's or other Metropolitan Hospital recognized by the Board of Trinity College (see page 256) are required.

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During the first three months of the Winter Session in which Students begin their Hospital work, they must attend Elementary Course of Hospital Instruction for one hour per day. The certificate for this Course must be signed by all the teachers who have taken part in the instruction, and the attendances of each day must be entered in a list, supplied by the Board of Trinity College, and initialled by the teachers for that day.

Students will be required to attend on at least forty-five occasions in this three months' Course in order to obtain credit for it.

Students in their Second and Third Hospital years are required, at the end of each month, to lodge at the Registrar's Office, in the Medical School, a card which has been signed daily during the month by some member of the Hospital Staff. These cards may be obtained at the Office at the School of Physic.

Before presenting themselves for the Final Examination, Students must lodge at the office notes of six Medical and six Surgical cases taken by them, and countersigned by the Physician or Surgeon in charge of the cases, also notes of six autopsies taken by them and countersigned by the Pathologist of the Hospital.

Hospital attendance cannot be commenced until the Student has obtained credit for six months' dissections, and completed the Preliminary Scientific Examination.

Students who shall have diligently attended the practice of a recognized London or Edinburgh Hospital for one year, of a recognized County Infirmary, or of a recognized Colonial Hospital for two years previous to the commencement of their Metropolitan Medical Studies, may be allowed, on special application to the Board of Trinity College, to count the period so spent as equivalent to one year spent in a recognized Metropolitan Hospital.

PRACTICAL VACCINATION."

One month's instruction in Practical Vaccination is required, to be attended at the Vaccine Department, Local Government Board for Ireland, 45, Upper Sackville-street; at No. 1 East Dispensary, 11, Emerald-street; or, until further notice, at the Grand Canal-street Dispensary.

The Local Government Board for Ireland require that Medical Officers of Dispensary Districts must have attended a six weeks' Course of instruction in Vaccination with six attendances, four being in consecutive weeks, must have passed an Examination, and must have shown practical knowledge in performing Vaccination. The L. G. B. recognises only the Certificates issued by the Medical Officers of the Vaccine Department, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin, the Workhouse Infirmary, Cork, and the Workhouse Infirmary, Belfast.

MENTAL DISEASE,

A Certificate of attendance on a three months' Course of Practical Study of Mental Disease in a recognized Institution (see page 256) is required.

PRACTICAL MIDWIFERY.

A Certificate of attendance on a six months' Course of Practical Midwifery with Clinical Lectures, including not less than thirty cases, is required. For recognized Hospitals, see page 256.

OPHTHALMIC SURGERY.

A Certificate of attendance on a three months' Course of Ophthalmic Surgery, at a Hospital in which at least twenty-five beds are kept for patients suffering from diseases of the Eye and Ear, is required.

ANESTHETICS

A Certificate of instruction and practice in the administration of General Anæsthetics is required.

SIR PATRICK DUN'S HOSPITAL.

Consulting Physicians.-John Mallet Purser, Sc.D., M.D.
John Magee Finny, M.D.

Physicians.--Walter George Smith, M.D., King's Professor of Materia
Medica and Pharmacy.

James Craig, M.D., King's Professor of Practice of
Medicine.

Henry C. Drury, M.D.

T. Henry Wilson, F.R.C.P.I., King's Professor of
Midwifery.

Surgeons.-Sir Charles B. Ball, Bart., M.D., M.Ch., Regius Professor of
Surgery.

Edward H. Taylor, M.D., University Professor of Surgery.
C. A. K. Ball, M.D.

Pathologist.-Alexander C. O'Sullivan, M.D., University Lecturer in
Pathology.

Surgeon to Department for Throat, Nose, and Ear.--Sir Robt. H. Woods, M.Ch.

Assistant Physician.-Edward J. Watson, M.D.

Assistant Surgeon.-C. M. Benson, M.D.

X-Ray Department.-Edward J. Watson, M.D.

Anesthetist.-W. C. P. Smyly, M.D.

House Surgeon.-[Vacant.]

Dentist.-J. I. Kelly, M. Dent. Sci.

SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS RECOGNIZED BY THE BOARD OF

TRINITY COLLEGE.

Courses of instruction taken at the Medical Schools of the following Institutions are recognized by the Board of Trinity College as qualifying for admission to the examinations in the School of Physic, provided that no student be permitted to take any of the Degrees in Medicine, Surgery, or Midwifery, unless he has attended at least three of the necessary five years in the School of Physic, Trinity College :—

The University of Lahore.

The M'Gill University, Montreal.
The University of Madras.
The University of Melbourne.
The University of Otago.
The University of Sydney.
The University of Toronto.

The following Hospitals, in addition to Sir P. Dun's Hospital, are recognized by the Board of Trinity College:

Masters in Obstétric Science must have passed the Final Examinations in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and produce

a Certificate of having attended a Summer Course in Obstetric Medicine and Surgery.a

They are then required to pass an Examination in the following subjects:

1. Practice of Midwifery.

2. Gynæcology.

3. Anatomy of Female Pelvis and

Elementary Embryology.

4. Clinical Gynecology.

Notice should be given to the Registrar of the School of Physic one month before the first day of the Examination. The dates are the same as those for the Final Examination, Part II., Midwifery, p. 11*.

Fee for the Degree of Master in Obstetric Science, £5.

Master in Surgery.

M.CH.

Masters in Surgery must be Bachelors in Surgery of the University of Dublin, of not less than three years' standing, and must produce satisfactory evidence of having been engaged for not less than two years from the date of their Registration in the study or practice of their profession. They must then pass an Examination in the following subjects:

1. Clinical Surgery.
2. Operative Surgery.

3. Surgical Pathology.

4. Surgery.

5. Surgical Anatomy (on the dead subject).

And one of the following optional subjects, viz. :—

1. Surgery, in one of its recognized branches, viz.: Ophthalmic and Aural; Gynæcological; Dental.

2. Mental Disease.

3. Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene.

4. Advanced Anatomy and Physiology. 5. Comparative Anatomy.

Notice should be given to the Registrar of the School of Physic one month before the Examination begins, the optional subject selected being named at the same time. The dates are the same as those for the Final Examination, Part II., Surgery.

Graduates in Surgery of the University of Dublin, of not less than ten years' standing, may be recommended for the Degree of

a Existing Graduates in Medicine of the standing of M.D. are not required to attend this Course,

M. Ch., by the vote of the Court of Examiners, on such Examination as they shall determine. Candidates claiming this privilege must give one month's notice to the Registrar of the School, state in full their qualifications, and name the optional subject selected.

Fee for the Degree of Master in Surgery, £11.

Doctor in Medicine.

M.D.

Doctors in Medicine must have passed the Final Examinations in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and must be of M.A. standing. They must also read a Thesis publicly before the Regius Professor of Physic, or must undergo an Examination before the Regius Professor of Physic, according to Regulations to be approved by the Provost and Senior Fellows.

The Regius Professor attends at 12 o'clock on the day before Commencements to hear Theses.

Candidates who intend to present themselves are required to send a notification to the Regius Professor not less than a week before the appointed day. Forms of notice may be obtained from the Registrar of the School.

Commencements will be held on December 20, March 7, April 19, July 1.

Fee for the Degree of Doctor in Medicine, £13.

UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS.

Candidates for the Diplomas in Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetric Science, must be matriculated in Medicine, and must have completed two years in Arts, and five years in Medical Studies.

The dates, regulations, and subjects of Examination are the same as for the Degrees.

Diplomates on completing the Course in Arts, and proceeding to the Degree of B.A., may be admitted to the Degree of Bachelor on paying the Degree Fees.

The Liceat fees are the same as for the Final Examinations for the Degrees."

Diploma in Public Health.

In the year 1870 a "Diploma in State Medicine " was instituted by a resolution of the Board of Trinity College. In 1898 it was resolved that the title of the "Diploma in State Medicine " be changed to that of "Diploma in Public Health."

See note at foot of page 250.