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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIX. No. 994 



The faculty of medicine of Harvard Uni- 

 versity offers a course of free public lectures, 

 to be given at the Medical School, on Sunday 

 afternoons, beginning January 4, and ending 

 May 10, 1914. The lectures, which begin at 

 four o'clock, are as follows: 



January 4. ' ' Eecent Studies of the Bodily Ef- 

 fects of Fear and Rage, ' ' by Dr. W. B. Cannon. 



January 11. "Rational Infant Feeding," by 

 Dr. John Lovett Morse. 



January 18. "The Effects of Habits of Posture 

 upon Health," by Dr. J. E. Goldthwait. 



January 25. ' ' The Tumors and Diseases of the 

 Breast." (To women only.) By Dr. R. B. 

 Greenough. 



February 1. "Some Surgical Diseases of Child- 

 hood and their Causes, ' ' by Dr. J. S. Stone. 



February 8. "Adenoids and Tonsils," by Dr. A. 

 Coolidge, Jr. 



February 15. "Microscopical Mechanisms of 

 the Brain, ' ' by Dr. Charles S. Minot. 



February 22. ' ' Some Causes of Nervous Insta- 

 bility, ' ' by Dr. E. W. Taylor. 



March 1. "Tooth Preservation in Children and 

 Adults, ' ' by Dr. William P. Cooke. 



March 8. ' ' Skin Nostrums, ' ' by Dr. Charles J. 

 White. 



March 15. "Chairs, Backache and Curved 

 Spine, ' ' by Dr. E. H. Bradford. 



March 22. "Spectacles and Eye-glasses; their 

 Use and Abuse," by Dr. Charles H. Williams. 



March 29. ' ' Diet in Relation to Diseases of the 

 Kidney, ' ' by Dr. E. P. Joslin. 



April 5. ' ' Aid for the Deaf, ' ' by Dr. Clarence 

 J. Blake. 



April 12. "Eugenics versus Caeogenics," by 

 Dr. E. E. Southard. 



April 19. "The Hygiene of Pregnancy." (To 

 women only.) By Dr. F. S. Newell. 



April 26. ' ' The Diagnosis and Immediate Treat- 

 ment of Lesser Injuries, including the Use and 

 Abuse of Antiseptics, ' ' by Dr. J. Bapst Blake. 



May 3. "Arterio Sclerosis," by Dr. W. H. 

 Smith. 



May 10. "The Sexual Instinct; its Use and 

 Abuse." (To men only.) By Dr. E. H. Nichols. 



The following are the principal prizes, as 

 we learn from the British Medical Journal, 

 awarded by the Paris Academy of Medicine 

 this year. The Louis Boggio prize (triennial, 

 of the value of £172) has been given to M. H. 

 Vallee, director of the Veterinary School of 



Alfort, for his researches on the prevention 

 and cure of tuberculosis. The Adrien Buisson 

 prize (triennial, of the value of £420), for the 

 discovery of means of cure of diseases coh- 

 sidered incurable, has been awarded to Dr. 

 Dopter, professor in the Ecole d' Application 

 of the military health service, for his work on 

 epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, the men- 

 ingococcus, antimeningococcic serum, para- 

 meningococci, and antiparameningococoic 

 serum. The Chevillon prize (£60), for the 

 best work on the treatment of cancer, has been 

 awarded to Dr. R. Eobinson, of Paris, for his 

 account of a method of biochemical diagnosis 

 of cancerous affections. The Herpin (of 

 Geneva) prize, for the best work on epilepsy 

 and nervous diseases, has been awarded to Dr. 

 Andre Barbe, of Paris, for his study of secon- 

 dary (bulbo-protuberantial and medullary) 

 disease of the pyramidal bundle. The Laborie 

 prize (£200), for the greatest progress in sur- 

 gery, has been given to Dr. Guisez, of Paris, 

 for his work on brancho-esophagoscopy. The 

 Meynot prize (£104), for the best work on dis- 

 eases of the eye, has been awarded to Dr. F. 

 Bourdier, of Paris, for his essay on the optic 

 meninges and primary optic meningitis. The 

 Roger prize (quinquennial, of the value of 

 £100), for the best work on diseases of chil- 

 dren, has been given to Professor E. Weill, of 

 Lyons, for his book, " Precis de medecine in- 

 fantile." The Tarnier prize (£120), for the 

 best work on gynecology, has been awarded to 

 Drs. P. Puech, of Montpellier, and J. Van- 

 verts, of Lille, for their book, " Tumors of the 

 Ovary and Pregnancy." The Tremblay prize 

 (quinquennial, of the value of £284), for the 

 best work on urinary diseases, has been award- 

 ed to Dr. E. Papin, of Paris, for an essay on 

 the sexual functions and prostatectomy. 

 Among the principal prizes of the Academic 

 des Sciences are the Montyon prize in medicine 

 and surgery ; three, each of the value of £100, 

 have been awarded to Madame Lina Negri 

 Luzani, of Paris, for studies on the corpuscles, 

 which, in conjunction with her late husband, 

 she discovered in the nervous system of mad 

 dogs; to Dr. L. Ambard, of Paris, for his 



