The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-08-22
Medical Prize Questions.


At the Annual Meeting of the Boyl-
ston Medical Committee, heldat Boston,
August /, 1921, it was voted that the
Boylston Medal, or fifty dollars in money,
be awarded TO the author of d Disserta-
ton +" On the Diseases of the Liver, &C.
who was found to be JOHN C Dalton,
M. D. Of Chelmsford and thatthe same
be awarded to the author of Disserta-
ton on this question" Can medicinal
substances be safely and odrantaeeousy an
troduced into animal bodies through the
medium Of the Ueims ?''-who was found
to be ENocH HALE, jr. M. D. and M. M.
S. S. of Boston.
The following Prize Questions are
now before the publick, viz
/. On the diagnosis, and Treatment of
Pertussia or Chin Cough.
9. On the medicinal use Of the Prus-
sac acid.
Dissertations on these subjects must
be transmitted, postpaid, to Dawn Town.
SEND, M. d. of Boston, on or before the
first Wednesday in April, 1892.
3 On the functions Of the eatrem' cop
aIlary Uessels IN health and IN disease
a. What TEXTURES of the body, zvhen
punctured or lacerated, are liable to bring
on The disease called Tetamus
Dissertations on the two last subjects
must be transmitted, as above, on or be-
fore the first Wednesday in April, 82S
The author of the best Dissertation on
either of these subjects, if approved,
will be entitled to receive the BoyIston
Medal, or fifty dollars. Each Disserta-
ton must be accompanied with a sealed
packet, on which shall be written some
device or sentence, and within shall be
enclosed the authors name and place of
residence. The same device or SEN
tence is to be written on the dissertation
to which the packet is attached.
All unsuccessful Dissertations are de-
posted with the Secretary, from whom
their authors can obtain them, # called
for 10ithfp one gear after they are receiVed.
No printed Dissertation Gamble receiy-
ed.
The Authors of Dissertations are de-
sired to write their papers neatly, dis
tinctly, legibly, and on good hper.
JOEL COFFIN, Scretarq.
~ The printers of newspapers IN the Unit
ed States are requested to publish thI ADORE.
The American Aloe, now exhibiting
in Philadelphia, is in state Of efflores-
cence and daily putting forth its flow
ers. For 10 years, the stem had attain
ed the height of only A feet; but since
May last, it has grown to he height of
16 feet, and circumferenceof Is inches.
During this last period it las put forth
90 lateral branches on sf the lowest
ones, there are more than 300 flower
ing buds, each of which il expected to
open into flower, intrinsfally beauti-
full.
We understand that the keel of
national ship is nearly ready to be laid
at the Navy ard, in Philadelphia,
which is expected to be the largest
armed ship in the world, by having
three entire tiers of guns, besides those
on the quarterback and forecastIe-in
all, 40 guns.
In Capt. Parry's Journal of his Voy-
age for the discovery of Northwest
passage, it is stated that the distance at
which sounds were heard in the open
air, during the continuance of intense
cold, was SO great as constantly to afford
matter of surprise to him, notwithstand-
ing the frequency with which he had
occasion to remark it.-People might
often be heard distinctly conuersing IN a
common tone Of voice, at the distance of
male.
morccstcr 15ank.
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