Excerpt from Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia: Thirty-Third Annual Session, 1882 At the last meeting of the Medical Association of Georgia the Committee on Prize Essays was authorized to award a prize Of fifty dollars to the best Essay on any subject connected with Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics or Hygiene - provided one be found worthy Of a prize. Each essay must be accompanied by a sealed packet on which shall be written some motto or sentence, and within which shall be inclosed the author's name and residence. The same motto or sentence is to be written on the essay to which the packet is attached. Any clew by which the authorship Of an essay is made known to the committee, will debar such essay from competition. Competition for this prize is Open to all regular physi eiaus practicing in Georgia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.