Q.P.Code 401004 Reg. No.:…………………
Final BHMS Degree Examinations April 2017
Practice of Medicine and Homoeopathic Therapeutics Paper I
Time 3 hrs Max marks 100
• Answer all questions
• Draw diagram wherever necessary
Essays: (2x10=20)
1. Explain in detail the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, investigations and
management of pleural effusion.
2. Describe the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, investigations, complications of
acute pancreatitis.
Short notes: (10x5=50)
3. Emphysema.
4. Cretinism.
5. Grading of dyspnoea
6. Kwashiorkor and marasmus.
7. Deformities in rheumatoid arthritis
8. Whipple's disease.
9. Down's syndrome.
10. Mumps.
11. Crohn's disease
12. Miliary tuberculosis.
Answer briefly: (10x3=30)
13. Irritable bowel syndrome
14. Bitot's spot.
15. Murphy's sign
16. Jones criteria for diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
17. Raynaud's phenomenon.
18. Sago spleen.
19. Tidal percussion.
20. Jod Basedow phenomenon.
21. Trousseau's sign.
22. Mallory Weiss syndrome.