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Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1867 First examination Chemistry by 
Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Original scanned volume, PDF page 83. Oxford, December 1867.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
The explanations retain the historical meanings of the names while using modern chemical formulas and atomic weights. Historical analytical methods are distinguished from present water quality assessment.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1867 First examination Botany by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867), scanned PDF page 87. Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1867 First examination Anatomy practical examination by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume. Scanned volume: PDF page 77, December 1867.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1867 First examination Anatomy and physiology by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume, PDF page 79.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
The answers distinguish explanations available in December 1867 from later discoveries. In particular, the historical expressions pneumogastric nerve, eremacausis and Entozoa require interpretation rather than unqualified adoption.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Therapeutics by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume, PDF pages 65–65.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
These solutions reconstruct therapeutic reasoning available in December 1866 and distinguish it from present medical conclusions. They are not an official answer key. Clinical patterns are explanatory examples, not observations of an actual patient. Historical drugs and procedures are discussed as historical practices, not current prescriptions.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Pathology by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume. Source range: PDF pages 63–63.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Medical translations by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). PDF volume pages 73–74; Oxford, December 1866, No. VI. Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
The original paper is untitled. The two headings below identify its unnumbered medical translations in their source order.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Forensic medicine and hygiene by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Diseases of women and children; principles of surgery by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume, PDF pages 69–69.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
These historical educational solutions distinguish reasoning available in December 1866 from present scientific conclusions. They are not an official answer key. Clinical examples describe possible patterns, not an actual patient's observations. Historical procedures and drugs are identified as period practices, not current prescriptions.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 Second examination Clinical examination by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 First examination Practical chemistry by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume. Source range: PDF pages 55–55.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 First examination Physics by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 First examination Chemistry by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Scanned volume, PDF page 57. Source range: PDF pages 57–57. Oxford, December 1866.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 First examination Anatomy practical examination by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1866 First examination Anatomy and physiology by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume, PDF pages 59–60.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Historical terms are interpreted in their nineteenth-century setting. Modern explanations and measurements are identified where they extend beyond the knowledge available in December 1866.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1865 Second examination Therapeutics by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Original paper, PDF page 41–41; 1-based scan pagination.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1865 Second examination Pathology by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867), PDF pages 39–39. Open the original paper in the scanned volume. Oxford, December, 1865.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
The explanations distinguish the descriptive categories used in 1865 from present pathology. They are educational accounts of disease mechanisms and examination findings.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1865 Second examination Medical translations by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). PDF volume pages 49–50; Oxford, December 1865, No. VI. Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
The original paper is untitled. The two headings below identify its unnumbered medical translations in their source order.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1865 Second examination Forensic medicine and hygiene by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
Past exam of the medicine course of the University of Oxford 1865 Second examination Diseases of women and children, and surgery by Codex 0 2026-10-31
Codex 0 2026-10-31Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). PDF volume p. 43; Oxford, December 1865, No. III. Open the original paper in the scanned volume.
Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.
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