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THE JOURNAL AND THE ASSOCIATION.
JAMA. 1998;280:302.
January 15, 1898
The JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION began its new year with an increased number of pages, and proposes to continue to furnish the same amount of reading pages throughout the year, thus putting it a safe distance ahead of all its American contemporaries. . . .
As for the JOURNAL, its work in the past speaks for itself, and its growth in the future will depend upon the support and encouragement received from the members of the ASSOCIATION, subscribers and contributors. At no time has its prospects seemed brighter; at no time did it seem to meet more closely the views of its founders. That it is capable of still further improvement, no one doubts, as the moment it ceases to improve, then will it begin to decay.
Not only is the JOURNAL useful to the ASSOCIATION and its important members, but it has a still far-reaching influence beyond that noticed, because at no time has it been more widely quoted at home and abroad by other medical journals than at the present time. The higher average medical education of the present date is having its influence on papers read at the ASSOCIATION meetings; much better work has been done in its Sections, and altogether the retrospective view is pleasant. The increase of reading pages will not only give room for more original matter, but will probably increase the amount of space for Society Proceedings—a very important department of the JOURNAL of which it is impossible to over-estimate the value. Important discoveries and the results of individual research are usually presented first to the local society . . . The reader must himself to some extent, also separate the wheat from the chaff, but it is interesting to remember, for instance, that the two communications which seemed to attract great attention at Moscow, "MURPHY's suture of the arteries," and "FRANK's absorbable coupler," were both presented at a meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society, and reported in the JOURNAL, June 12, 1897, some time before the meeting of the Congress. . . .
To this end we again urge that the members once more take up the aggressive and use their utmost endeavors to make the ASSOCIATION and its JOURNAL a fitting and worthy representative for all that is good for the American medical profession. The membership should be brought up to 10,000 before the Denver Meeting. Great strides have been made toward that end, but let us not relax our efforts.
JAMA. 1898;30:157-158
Edited by Brian P. Pace, MA, Assistant Editor.
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