RT Journal
A1 Kelly HA
T1 THe tariff and medicine
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD March 20
VO LII
IS 12
SP 978
OP 978
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540380044014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540380044014
AB To the Editor: 
    —Now that Congress is considering a partial revision of the tariff with a view of reducing some of our excessive and burdensome duties, I think that it would be an excellent time for medical men to get together and show how unjustly their interests are affected by the present tariff schedules. Medicine being the only cosmopolitan industry in the world, it continually happens that articles necessary to the prosecution of medical research are made better in one country than in another, and for this reason it often becomes necessary to import in considerable quantities into other countries instruments or appliances made under the supervision of the inventor. I have found the tariff on radium excessively burdensome, and I am sure that it is a serious hindrance to the cause of original investigation in this country in the field of therapeutics. Physicians in both Germany and England have