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Rh surgical instruments and enumeration of cases where they should be employed ... ... ... ... ...

Practice of surgery:—Teaching of surgery on dummies and suitable fruits, etc. ..., ... ... ...

Essential qualifications of a physician before he formally enters his profession:—Means of diagnosis—Things to be observed in making a diagnosis—Cure, palliation and incurability of diseases—Prohibited conduct of a physician ... ...

Mode of preparing alkalis, and their comparative excellence as incising, excising or scraping agents:—Alkalis for external application or internal use—Cases where alkalis prove injurious—The three potencies of alkalis for external application—Commendable or defective features in an alkali—Mode of its application, and after-measures—Symptoms of satisfactory cauterisation—Persons who should not be treated with alkalis—Dangers which attend its abuse ... ... ... ...

Actual cauteries:—Accessories to an act of cauterisation— Preliminary measures—Symptoms which manifest themselves as the skin, or flesh, or a vein, or joint is cauterised—Seats of cauterisation in different diseases—Different modes of cauterisation—Characteristic symptoms of burns and scalds, etc.—Rationale of treating a burn or a scald with heat—Medical treatment of burns and scalds, etc.—Symptoms which appear when the nostrils, etc. of a person is choked with smoke—Its treatment—Medical treatment of sun strikes, and scorchings by hot wind, etc. ... ...