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BULLETIN

-OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

VOLUME I.

JANUARY 1891, TO APRIL 1895.

EASTON, PA.:

CHEMICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1895.

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MY DEAR DOCTOR :

29 HENRY STREET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

This number of the BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE is sent to you as well as to other regular members of our profession, who are graduates of literary colleges, with the hope that the objects of our organization may be so nearly in harmony with your own views that you will wish to become a Fellow of the Academy.

The American Academy of Medicine is a society composed of physicians who, previous to entering upon the study of medicine, have pursued a systematic course of study in some college or scientific school and received therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Arts or its equivalent.

Its objects are practical and have in view the general welfare of our profession, as well as of society at large.

It aims to bring into closer relations those members of our profession who are alive to the importance of systematic mental culture, as a preparation for the study and practice of medicine.

It hopes, through the association of all educated physicians, to utilize for the good of humanity that latent power of the individual, which is only potent when combined and organized.

It aims to wield the combined moral and intellectual force of the members of the profession thus organized, as an instrument with which to create, mold, and control the sentiment and policy of the whole profession, and so ultimately of the whole community, until it shall be impossible for any one without adequate preliminary education, to enter upon the study of medicine.

It is the aim of this Association to aid and encourage progressive medical schools to adopt yet higher standards in their preliminary requirements and in the curriculum of medical study; to urge forward by the motive of selfpreservation those who are lagging and unwilling, and to starve out those who are hopelessly intractable and will not adapt their methods to the advanced requirements of the age.

It hopes by this course to aid in elevating the medical profession to a higher plane than it has ever before occupied, so that with its members more carefully selected, more thoroughly equipped, and more perfectly united and organized, it shall be enabled as never before, to successfully meet the problems of the nature, prevention, and cure of disease, not only as related to the individual, but to the race as a whole.

We confidently look for the sympathy and co-operation of every intelligent physiclan in our efforts to achieve these ends, and we earnestly hope that every one to whom this circular is sent, will work with us in this great undertaking.

Should you decide to make application for membership, will you kindly fill out the blank on the opposite page and return it to me so that I may receive it at an early date, as our annual meeting is on June 3rd, and applications not acted upon at that meeting must be carried over to next year.

Fraternally Yours,

C. W. HITCHCOCK,

Chairman of Committee.

The standard of the Academy for the liberal education is the A. B. degree, but other evidence of an equivalent amount of preparation is accepted. If this evidence is a bachelor degree other than the A. B., it is desirable that the application be accompanied by a statement from an officer of the college granting the degree that the course leading to the degree is considered by them as of equal educational power to their course in Arts. If the applicant has no academical degree (unless he is a graduate of a foreign university requiring a full equivalent of their candidates for the Doctorate), the application must be accompanied by a certificate from the institution where the partial course was pursued stating the length of time of study, and an opinion whether the preliminary education of the applicant is fairly equivalent to that possessed by an A. B. of their college; and on that ground, recommending him for election to Fellowship in the Academy as a former student of their institution. As honorary degrees have, in many instances, been given for other reasons than the possession of scholarly attainments, they cannot, by themselves, be accepted as evidence of a liberal education.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.

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I herewith apply for admission to the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

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The undersigned, a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, cordially recommends the election of the above applicant to Fellowship in the Academy.

Application recorded.

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Secretary.

As this is an APPLICATION for membership, and not a proposal, it should be made in the applicant's own handwriting, signed by a Fellow of the Academy, and sent to Dr. C. W. Hitchcock, 29 Henry Street, Detroit, Mich.

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