RT Journal
T1 THe american academy of medicine.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD November 9
VO XIII
IS 19
SP 673
OP 674
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401150023007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401150023007
AB As announced elsewhere in this issue of The Journal, the next annual meeting of the Academy will be held in this city during this month. The aim of the Academy deserves to be better known to the profession. It recognizes the fact that one of the principal objects of the organization of the American Medical Association was to aid in elevating the medical profession of the United States by every practicable means, and thus securing better care for the public health; and the further fact that the investigations and reports of its committees, especially those on the education—preliminary and medical—of medical men, showed that it had done much to secure the honorable standing of the medical profession in the United States at the close of the first century of American independence, as shown in the general addresses delivered at the Centennial International Medical Congress in 1876. With a desire to