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or other token of honor and merit to be awarded by the President and 

 Fellows of said Academy, at their discretion, to any individual or 

 individuals who shall in their judgment and belief, during the said 

 Septennial period next preceding any award thereof, through experi- 

 ment, study or otherwise discover any notably useful remedy, or invent 

 any cunning device or instrument for the treatment and cure of diseases 

 and derangement of the human sexual generative organs in general, 

 and more especially for the cure, prevention or relief of the retention 

 of urine cystitis, prostatitis, etc., those distressing disorders so common 

 to old men: moreover as a secondary consideration, I direct that 

 should no invention or discovery as aforesaid be made and brought 

 to the knowledge and deliberation of said President and Fellows during 

 said Septennial period and be awarded as aforesaid, then and in that 

 event, the said President and Fellows may award the said prize and 

 medal or both, to any author or authors, during said period, who may 

 have written any theoretical or practical treatise which in their judg- 

 ment, may be of extraordinary or exceptional value and merit on the 

 anatomy of said organs, or the treatment of said diseases. But in all 

 cases of competition any aforesaid invention or discovery shall take 

 precedence of any authors or theoretical, practical and approved 

 treatise, any one such individual, however, being eligible to both said 

 prize and medal : it being my intention, purpose and design not only 

 to aid and reward as much as possible, those, the pursuit and practise 

 of whose legitimate profession might naturally and spontaneously aid 

 and lead them towards the realization and attainment of the objects 

 and honors for which this bequest is founded, those, in a word, whose 

 merit and reward are uniformly "the children of their voluntary 

 efforts," but moreover also wishing and intending to render the same 

 well worth the while and efforts of even the unprofessional, and to in 

 every way possible awaken and stimulate the attention, zeal, ambition 

 and sympathy therein, of the poorest, the most indifferent and uncon- 

 cerned. Therefore should any such septennial period elapse without 

 said prize or token or both for the next preceding period having been 

 awarded, then and in that event the said income or any portion thereof, 

 not having been then paid for said prize, medal or token or both for 

 such period, shall be added to said capital sum of $25,000, and shall 

 become part an parcel of said capital sum and said capital sum shall 

 on no account be expended for any other purpose or object whatsoever. 

 Section XXV. I desire and suggest that my executors hereinafter 

 named, or whoever shall be charged with the execution of this my will, 

 shall, at the expense of my estate, during the period of three years 



