Proposal, 'Prize. Proposed by the Academy of Surgery for the year 1742' by Michael Bermingham The proposal informs of the topic of the prize for 1740 - the determination of the different species of repercussives, their actions, and use in surgery - and informs that no one was selected as a winner in that year and that the Academy would like to propose the same prize for 1742. Note on reverse of proposal reads: 'Not to be enter'd'. Subject: Surgery Addressed to Doctor [Cromwell] Mortimar [Mortimer]. Read to the Royal Society on 29 January 1740. [1740]