Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — $100,000 IS OFFERED FOR PHTHISIS CORE [ARTICLE]

$100,000 IS OFFERED FOR PHTHISIS CORE

Alumnus Places Prize Fund In Custody of University. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 3.—An anonymous alumnus of Yale has offered a prize of SIOO,OOO for the person who first discovers an adequate remedy for tuberculosis. The prize fund has been placed in the custody of Yale university and the Yale medical school faculty are to act as its trustees. A number of the leading physicians of the country have been invited to bo come members of an advisory board, whose duty it shall be to pass on the merits of cures submitted. A condition of the award of the prize is that the cure under consideration shall have been in use for at least five years and during that time have proved its actual and unquestioned efficiency as a cure for tuberculosis.