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(1.) Of having passed the second professional examination; (2.) Of having been registered a medical student at least forty-two months previously; (3.) Of being twenty-one years of age before the date of graduation; (4.) Of having attended a course of not less than one hundred lectures on Surgery; (5.) Of having attended a course of not less than one hundred lectures on Medicine; (6.) Of having attended a course of not less than one hundred lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health; (7.) Of having attended a course of not less than sixty lectures on Midwifery and Diseases of Women; (8.) Of having attended for three years the medical and surgical practice of a hospital containing not less than a hundred beds, and having a distinct staff of physicians and surgeons. This certificate must state that the candidate has acted as dresser for six months in the surgical wards, and as clerk for six months in the medical wards. Six months of this hospital practice may be taken at a lunatic asylum containing not less than a hundred beds; (9.) Of having attended six midwifery cases; (10.) Of dispensary practice for six months either in the outpatient department of a hospital, or at a public dispensary, or with a qualified practitioner; (11.) Of having had instruction and practice in vaccination; (12.) Of having had clinical instruction in insanity. Candidates in surgery will be examined practically as to surgical appliances and surgical anatomy, and may be required to operate on the dead body. XI. No certificates—except that of instruction in chemistry —shall be received, except from such schools as are approved of by the General Medical Council of Great Britain. XII. Any candidate who produces satisfactory evidence that he has passed an examination in chemistry, or in anatomy, or in physiology, or in pathology, or in materia medica, required for a degree in Medicine at an University in the United Kingdom or in the colonies, or for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, shall, subject to the approval of the Chancellor, be exempt from examination in these subjects. XIII. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine shall not be less than twenty-four years of age. They must have obtained the degree of Bachelor of Medicine at least two years previously, and must have been engaged during the interval in the practice or study of their profession. XIV. Candidates must send in for approval a thesis on some subject belonging to the medical curriculum. XV. Candidates shall also be examined, both in writing and orally, on any one of the following groups of subjects they may choose :— (1.) Anatomy and physiology; (2.) Surgery and anatomy; (3.) Medicine and pathology ; (4.) Public health and medical jurisprudence. XVI. The thesis, and notification of the subjects which the candidate chooses for examination, must be forwarded to the Registrar three months before the examination, which will be held in November of each year. XVII. The fee for each examination shall be one guinea.