Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1916 — SEEK SUBSTITUTE FOR HAND [ARTICLE]

SEEK SUBSTITUTE FOR HAND

Anonymous Donor Offers SIO,OOO to Paris Society of Surgeons for Best Apparatus. London—The Lancet learns from the Societe Nationale de Chirurgie de Paris that an anonymous donor has offered-to the society a prize of $lO,000 to be handed over to the maker of the mechanical apparatus which -Best supplies the place of the hand. The Conditions are laid down as follows: “All competitors must belong to allied or neutral nations. They are to present to the society mutilated men who have been using their apparatus for at least six months. The Societe de Chirurgie will experiment with each apparatus on mutilated men for the length of time it thinks fit. The apparatus rewarded is to remain the property of its inventor. The competition will lie closed two years after the end of the war.” MM. Faure, Kiirmisson, Quenu, Rieffei and Roc-hard form the committee selected by the society to deal with the competition, and those wishing to. compete should send the apparatus and description to the secretary general of the Societe Nationale de Chirurgie, 12 Rue de Seine, Paris.