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Susan Crawford, PhD

JAMA. 1975;231(12):1273.

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It is a little-known fact that The Journal of the American Medical Association dates back to 1848. It was not called THE JOURNAL then, but was issued under the title Transactions of the AMA, and included news about the profession, association activities, as well as original scientific contributions reflecting medicine and its contemporary environmental context. There is an account of the member who pleaded reform, as a European visitor had just won a bet that he could earn a US medical diploma without attending a class (Trans AMA 30:36, 1879). A scientific article was presented on the negative effects of tea and coffee on the laboring classes, ie, schoolteachers and social workers (Trans AMA 2:635, 1849). And in those days, attending meetings was difficult, not because of holding patterns around airports, but rather because of uncertainties related to horse, carriage, and spring floods.

By 1882, the "Transactions" had grown to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Director, Division of Library and Archival Services American Medical Association Chicago

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