Report of the committee on plans of organization for state and county medical societies of the American Medical Association : read at the meeting in Detroit, May, 1856 / by A.B. Palmer.

  • Alonzo Benjamin Palmer
Date:
1856
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Credit: Report of the committee on plans of organization for state and county medical societies of the American Medical Association : read at the meeting in Detroit, May, 1856 / by A.B. Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Article V. The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, Vice-Presi- dent, Secretary, Treasurer, and three Censors. Article VI. Duties of President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, as usual. It shall he the duty of the Censors to examine all persons applying for admission to the offices of any members of this Society as stu- dents of medicine, and if found worthy, to give them certificates of possessing a good moral and intellectual character ; a good English education, including a thorough knowledge of the English language, and a respectable acquaintance with its literature and with the art of composition ; a fair knowledge of the natural sciences, and at least the more elementary mathematics, including the chief fundamental elements of algebra and geometry, and such a knowledge of the ancient languages as will enable him to read current prescriptions and appreciate the technical language of the natural sciences and of medicine. Article VII. Meetings.—When held. How called, &c. Article VIII. Funds.—How raised and expended, &c. Article IX. This Society shall adopt the Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association. Article X. There shall be a Standing Committee of this Society, of such num- bers and chosen in such manner as the Society by its by-laws may direct, whose duty it shall be to receive records of cases occurring in practice from the members of the Society as provided for in Article IV of this constitution, to arrange them in a condensed form, show- ing for each month of the year the percentage of each form of disease reported, adding accounts of the localities where they occurred, the general habits and other hygienic conditions of the people, the gen- eral meteorological characters of each month, and statements of the type or severity, or other peculiarities which each particular disease may have assumed, the general course of treatment pursued, and the general results of treatment or the termination of cases ; and to transmit such accounts annually to the committee for receiving them of the State Society to which this Society is auxiliary. Article XI. Provisions for altering or amending this Constitution. A. B. PALMER, Chairman. N. B. IVES.
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