RT Journal
T1 ORganize—unite—centralize.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD November 11
VO XXXIII
IS 20
SP 1234
OP 1235
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450720050016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450720050016
AB The medical profession yet remains palpably negligent of its splendid opportunities and seemingly careless of its grave, indeed urgent, responsibilities to civilization, in its sloth in mustering its units into a coherent corps which will possess that power and command that respect to which it is entitled by its lofty aims and self-sacrificing labor. There are too many counties in the Union that yet have no medical societies; in too many of the states the organizations, if they exist, are lacking in virility. United in a firmly correlated and closely conjoined series of associations, our profession can imperatively demand those well-recognized reforms that will inure to the benefit of the nation, which now, on bended knee, we but faintly suggest to the law-making powers of both large and small communities. A blind man may see that in the coming century individualism will have small place in the great undertakings of