Surgeon-General C. A. Gordon, M.D., C.B., lias published another bulky report on the subject of Typhoid fever in which he adduces fresh arguments in
support of which has
was
given
the view enunciated in his earlier report reviewed in this journal not long ago. He additional evidence of the interest which
he takes in the most
by offering the
a
subject. prize
The
Department
prize
important subject
of Indian fevers
of Rs. 500 for the best
Essay
on
is open to officers of the and Indian Medical
Army Medical Department who have troops. The subject
served five years with British is to be handled witli reference to British soldiers in
history, causation, pathology and treatment, preventive and curative, are to be treated of in detail. India,
and
The 31st of December 1881 has been fixed
as the latest the be which will received. The allotment date essay of this prize is to rest with three arbitrators selected by the Director-General, A.M.D., Secretary of State for India and Army Sanitary Commission, each of whom must have served 15 years in India, and five of these with British troops. on