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from members of the medical profession of these countries to be 

 enrolled as members of the Brotherhood of our country. Among our 

 correspondents are such well-known men as Theodor Kocher, Ein- 

 thoven, Thahna, Rovsing, Thunberg, Von Monakow, Zwaarde- 

 maker, de Quervain, Jacquet, Marsden and others of similar standing. 

 The Appeal was published in some of the medical and scientific 

 Journals of these countries, and we have the encouraging informa- 

 tion that organizations similar to ours were started there. Quite 

 recently the Nederlandsche Vereenigung voor Heelkunde (Holland) 

 requested to be enrolled as a member of the Medical Brotherhood of 

 this country. We did not approach members of the profession in 

 any of the helligerent countries; nevertheless, we received requests 

 to be enrolled from medical men in Finland (Russia) who probably 

 read the Appeal in Swedish medical Journals. 



The fourteen thousand members of the medical profession of this 

 country who have enrolled as members of the Brotherhood represent 

 about 15 per cent. of the number of physicians to whom the Appeal 

 was sent. We have, therefore, good reasons to consider henceforth 

 the Fraternitas Medicorum as an established Organization. 



Analysis of objections. While it is idle to speculate as to 

 the real attitude of those who did not respond to the Appeal, certain 

 instructive facts, capable of shedding some light upon this question, 

 may be learned, nevertheless, from an analysis of part of the corre- 

 spondence we have had. We shall not include in the discussion the 

 numerous letters in which the writers unreservedly and enthusiasti- 

 cally approved our movement. But we have to mention that among 

 the enrolled members are some who originally looked upon the enter- 

 prise with misgivings. We shall mention further the instructive f act 

 that a number of physicians asked for enrollment cards months after 

 the Appeal was sent to them, stating frankly that they threw away 

 the Appeal without even having read it, because they were bothered 

 with too many war and peace circulars. 



However, we received about twenty-seven letters, the contents 

 of which were unmistakably adverse to our movement. Nine of 

 these Communications were anonymous; they contained offensive 

 remarks, assuming that the Medical Brotherhood was a part of an 



