After fourteen months the work of compiling and printing the Thirteenth Edition of the American Medical Directory has been completed and copies are now available for general distribution. The importance of this volume as a source of authoritative data of the medical profession and its allied interests is widely recognized.
The 1934 directory contains 2,451 pages and lists 178,516 physicians in the United States, its dependencies, Canada and Newfoundland, and American graduates and licensees temporarily practicing in foreign countries. It supplies also information regarding the medical practice acts of various states, the Constitution, By-Laws and Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association, the membership of special organizations of physicians, and the names and locations of medical schools, medical journals, medical libraries, state institutions, hospitals, sanatoriums and charitable institutions. All the information is verified and in form for convenient reference.
Three years has passed since the Twelfth Edition appeared.