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REJ.DY SHORTLY. 



HOSPITALS: 



THEIR 



HISTORY, ORGANIZATION, AND CONSTROCTION. 



Boyhton Prize-Essay of Harvard University for 1876. 



BY 



W. GILL WYLIE, M. D. 



"AN ounce op prevention is worth a pound op cure." 

 One vol., 8vo. Cloth. Illustrated. - - - Price, $2.50. 



D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, New York. 



BOYLSTON MEDICAL PRIZE QUESTIONS. 



The Boylston Medical Committee, appointed by the President and Fellows of 

 Harvard University, consists of the following physicians : 



J. B. S. Jackson, M. D., Henry J. Bigelow, M.D., 



D. H. Storer, M. D., Richard M. Hodges, M.D., 



Morrill Wyman, M. D., Calvin Ellis, M. D., 



Samuel Cabot, M. D. 



At the annual meeting, held June 7, 1875, it was voted that no dissertation worthy of a 

 prize had been offered on either of the subjects proposed for 1875. 



The following are the questions proposed for 1876: 



1. Civil Hospital Construction (not of Lunatic Asylums) ; Location, Materials, Arrange- 

 ment, Warming, Ventilation, Drainage, Lighting ; with Designs. 



The author of a dissertation on this subject, considered worthy of a prize, will be enti- 

 tled to a premium of Three Hundred Dollars. 



Dissertations on the above subjects must be transmitted, postpaid, to J. B. S. Jackson, 

 M. D., Boston, on or before the first Wednesday in April, 1876. 



Each dissertation must be accompanied by a sealed packet, on which shall be written 

 some device or sentence, and within which shall be inclosed the author's name and resi- 

 dence. The same device or sentence is to be written on the dissertation to which the 

 packet is attached. 



The writer of each dissertation is expected to transmit his communication to the Pres- 

 ident of the Committee, J. B. S. Jackson, M.D., in a distinct and plain handwriting, and 

 with the pages bound in book form, within the time specified. 



Any clew by which the authorship of a dissertation is made known to the committee 

 will debar such dissertation from competition. 



Preference will be given to dissertations which exhibit original work. 



All unsuccessful dissertations are deposited with the Secretary, from whom they may 

 be obtained, with the sealed packet unopened, if called for within one year after they have 

 been received. 



By an order adopted in 1826, the Secretary was directed to publish annually the follow- 

 ing votes : 



1. That the Board do not consider themselves as approving the doctrines contained in 

 any of the dissertations to which premiums may be adjudged. 



2. That in case of publication of a successful dissertation, the author be considered as 

 bound to print the above vote in connection therewith. 



At the annual meeting, held June 5, 18*76, it was voted that a prize of three 

 hundred dollars be awarded to Dr. W. Gill Wylie, of New York, for a dissertation 

 on " Civil Hospital Construction." 



It was also voted that a dissertation on " Hospital Construction," bearing the 

 motto " Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt," was of such a high order of merit 

 that the committee recommend its publication by the author. 



Richard M. Hodges, M. D., Secretary, Boston, Mass. 



