98 Correspondence of J. Nickles. 
Grand Surgical Prize—Hor the preservation of limbs by the preserva- 
tion of the periosteum.—This is a prize of 20,000 francs, to be awarded, 
if there is a suitable occasion, in 1866. The following is an — 
from the open of the object for which this prize is offered a 
published by Flour 
“* Numerous aay fase proved that the egraniags has the power of 
producing bone. Recently some remarkable facts in —— surgery 
ave oh raat that very extended portions of bone e been repro- 
is interestin at once fe science and to hu umanity. Those who engage in 
it will not forget that their Jabor is at once practical and that they are 
laboring for man, and that it draws no less upon their respect for human- 
ity than upon their intelligence.” 
he Academy had decided that the prize should be 10,000 francs. 
When informed of this decision the Emperor, fully appreciating the ben- 
efits to be derived from such progress in surgery, immediately caused & 
communication to be sent to the Academy that the prize should be 
doubled. 
The prize will therefore be 20,000 francs. The essays, written in 
French, moe ~ dane a to the Secretary of the Institute before the 
1st of ae 
Em id of Glycerine in Surgery—The first application of gly- 
cerine in ae treatment of disease appears to have been made in England 
had become mar In an ie of hospital gangrene which ae 
at the Hospital St. Louis at Paris after having employed without suc- 
cess lemon juice, nitric acid, and the red oxyd of iron, haces ay ay made 
nse a Abii Me a success ee his expectations 
nism of the poisoning i of strychnine and curare-—We 
bia orcad noticed* experiments on this point made by Dr. Vella of 
Turin. The author has shown that the curare destroys the effects of a 
dose of strychnine which would produce death when taken alone into the 
stomach or when injected into the veins. For by exhibiting together the 
curare and the strychnine, ei ag separately or prerioney mingled, far from 
increasing the poisonous action of these substances, it is possible to neu- 
tralize them and cause their ‘effects to een The j two substances 
do not exercise any chemical action upon each other, from whence it ap- 
pears that the oi of their poisonous effects results from action 
wholly physiologica 
n unpublished memoir by Lavoisier.—The works of Lavoisier are to 
be published at the expense of the government, and under the auspices 
of the minister of public instruction. Dumas, who has undertaken to 
edit them, has found many of his writings hitherto unpublished, one of 
which has just been published in an extremely interesting volume enti- 
5 
* Vol. xxix, 269, March, 1860. 
