Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication.

  • George Cheyne Shattuck Sr.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ADJUDICATION. T^TTITH the beneficent and laudable view of improving the art of Medicine, and to excite practitioners to bring those talents to light, which might otherwise be useless to the community, Ward Nicholas Boylstox, Esq. hath, by an instrument under his hand and seal, given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in Cambridge, bearing date Jan- uary 20th, 1803, empowered and enabled that Corporation to appoint annually a Committee skilled in subjects connected with Medical, Anatomical, Physical, or Chymical subjects, as they deem most useful, and the several Authors of the best Dis- sertation, (in the judgment of a majority of said Committee) upon each of said subjects, which shall be transmitted or de- livered to them, on or before the 20th of November next, after public notice given of said Questions, are entitled'to receive of this Committee a Prize Medal (or the amount in money at their option), of such value as to said Committee shall seem proper ; provided the value of all the Medals distributed, and the money thus paid in any one year, shall not exceed one / dred dollars. And the corporation having appointed ISAAC RAND, M. D. ] B. VvATERHOUSE, M. D. Dr. LEMUEL HAYWARD, \ AARON DEXTER^ M.D. johx Warren, m. d. ; w*. spooner, m. d. Dr. WILLIAM EUSTIS, \ and Dr. JOHN BROOKS. : Dr.JOSIAH BARTLETT, to be a Committee to propound the questions above mentioned, and to carry into effect Mr. Boylstovs benevolent purpose, they do hereby propose the following Questions to all, who cultivate Medicine, or the sciences connected with it ; and do invite their attention to a discussion of the several subjects here laid before them.