MEDICAL BROTHERHOOD 



FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF INTERNATIONAL 



MORALITY 



Fraternitas medicorum 

 F. M. 



OrIGIN, ORGANIZATION, PROCEEDINGS, REPORTED BY THE FiRST SecRETARY, 



WILLIAM J. GIES 



At the fourth annual dinner of the Columbia University Bio- 

 chemical Association (March 26, 1915), which was attended by 

 about 200 members and guests of the Biochemical Association, and 

 at which he was the guest of honor, Dr. S. J. Meltzer deHvered the 

 address that is published on the opening pages of this issue of the 

 Biochemical Bulletin. In that address Dr. Meltzer proposed 

 that " all medical men of various shades and groupings . . . ought 

 to establish a Medical Brotherhood for the Purpose of Upholding 

 and Accelerating the Progress of International MoraUty." At the 

 conclusion of Dr. Meltzer's address the large assembly was invited 

 to express its opinion, by a rising vote, on the desirability and feas- 

 ibility of organizing such a Brotherhood. The vote was unani- 

 mously in the affimiative. (See pages 263 and 267 of this volume 

 of the Biochemical Bulletin.) 



Dr. Meltzer's address was published in Science (April 9, 1915; 

 p. 515). Shortly thereafter Dr. Meltzer communicated with some 

 of his colleagues regarding their personal willingness to participate 

 in the Organization of the proposed Brotherhood and was heartily 

 encouraged in his plans to effect its establishment. 



On July 3, 1915, Dr. Meltzer issued a statement, in part, as 

 f ollows : 



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