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Excerpt from Shadows in the Ethics of the International Medical Congress
For the information of readers who have not followed the International Medical Congress through its phases of change since it was decided to hold the next meeting in this country, it may be stated that the original committee of seven men, to whom the American Medical Association in 1884 gave the matter in charge, being invested, in accordance with the Act creating the committee, with full powers to perfect such arrangements as would secure a successful meeting, proceeded to Outline the work that was to be done, by the creation of nineteen sections, represent ing in detail every department in the Science of Medicine. This division of the work, copied mainly from the method pursued at the preceding sessions of the Inter national Medical Congress, was assigned to a like number of committees, composed of medical men selected from different sections of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
