PRIZE QUESTION. 
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Notice of a Prize offered by the Medical Society of Edinburgh, 
for the best Essiy on the Question, “ Whether Azote be ab- 
sorbed during Respiration 
OU will confer an obligation on the Medical Society of 
Edinburgh, by inserting in your valuable publication the 
following paragraph : 
The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh propose, as the 
subject of the prize essay for the year 1815, the foil© wing 
question : 
“ Is azote gas absorbed in the lungs during respiration ? If 
it is not, whence do herbivorous animals derive their azote I” 
A set of books, or a medal of live guineas value, shall be 
given to the author of the best dissertations on an experimental 
investigation of the subject proposed, for which all the mem- 
bers honorary, extraordinary, and ordinary, are alone invited 
as candidates. 
The dissertations are to be written in English, French, or 
Latin, and to be delivered to the secretary, on or before the 
1st of December of the succeeding year, to that in which the 
subjects are proposed. And the adjudication of the prize shall 
take place in the last week of February following. 
To each dissertation, shall be prefixed a motto, and this 
motto is to be writ ten on the outside of a sealed packet, con- 
taining the name and address of the author. No dissertation 
shall be received with the author’s name affixed, and all dis- 
sertations, except the successful one, will be returned, if de- 
sired, with the settled packet unopened. 
Edinburgh, yth May , 1813. 
SIR. 
I am. Sir 
To William Nicholson , Esq, 
London . 
Your most obedient Servant, 
N. BAIN, Secretary. 
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