70 MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 



zig in 1772. It was this same year, that he ob- 

 tained the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy of 

 Toulouse, for his answer to the question, " What is 

 the best method for Inoculating for the Small-pox 9 

 And now, in 1774, this memoir was published, along 

 with Critical Observations on Van-Swietens Com," 

 mentaries on Small-pox. About this time be also 

 received the prize of the Royal Academy of Lyons, 

 for a work on the Chronic Diseases of the Lungs. 

 To this last Academy, he sent three other commu- 

 nications on professional subjects ; and about the 

 same time published three pamphlets at Leeuwarden, 

 on Suicide, Infanticide, and the Signs of Life or 

 Death in New-born Infants. Much about the same 

 time, he received two Gold Medals from L' Academic 

 Royale de Chirurgerie of Paris, the one for a commu- 

 nication On the Effects, good and bad, of Air in 

 Surgical Diseases j and the other On the Effects of 

 Ointments, 8$c. on Wounds. To the Batavian So- 

 ciety at Rotterdam, besides a Surgical Essay, he 

 transmitted a memoir On the Croaking of the Frog ; 

 and busied himself during the winter in minutely 

 examining a young elephant wnich had died in the 

 Menagerie of the Prince of Orange. He imme- 

 diately published a succinct account of this exami- 

 nation in one of the Dutch periodicals, and devoted 

 a considerable portion of time in succeeding years, 

 to the examination of other species of the genus, and 

 in perfecting this treatise ; which was ultimately pub- 

 lished in French by his son, who himself seems 



