374  65th  Annual  Session  of  A.  M.  A.     { Am^ul°Zt  ma4rm' 
THE  65TH  ANNUAL  SESSION  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
By  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  191 3  meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association  was  held 
in  Atlantic  City,  June  22-26,  and  was  attended  by  3958  members 
who  took  the  time  and  trouble  to  register.  The  registration  this 
year  is  reported  to  have  been  considerably  larger  than  that  of  any  of 
the  previous  sessions  of  the  Association  in  Atlantic  City.  The  work 
of  the  House  of  Delegates  and  its  committees  and  the  proceedings 
of  the  several  sections  of  the  Association  are  reported  at  length  in 
the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association  for  July  4,  1914, 
vol.  63,  pp.  73-130.  The  scientific  papers,  because  of  the  restrictions 
imposed  by  the  House  of  Delegates  at  the  Minneapolis  meeting,  were 
fewer  in  number  than  in  former  years,  but  the  subject  matter  dis- 
cussed was  correspondingly  good,  the  programs  for  the  several 
sections  being  generally  well  carried  out. 
The  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics  had,  as  usual, 
a  program  containing  many  papers  of  pharmaceutical  interest.  Dele- 
gates from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  were  recog- 
nized, and  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  the  chairman  of  this  dele- 
gation, in  extending  the  felicitations  of  the  organization  he  repre- 
sented, said: 
"  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  brings  greetings  to 
the  American  Medical  Association.  It  is  meet  and  proper  that  two 
national  bodies  should  exchange  greetings,  for,  however  they  may 
differ  in  function  and  scope,  they  are  united  in  principle  in  the  one 
great  object  of  promoting  the  health  of  the  nation  in  combating 
disease. 
"  It  is  gratifying  to  know  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  practically 
completed,  so  far  as  the  bulk  of  the  work  is  concerned.  The  printing 
of  the  Appendix,  with  the  Tables,  Reagents,  and  Volumetric  Solu- 
tions, will  be  sent  to  the  printer  this  week,  for  this  part  of  the  book 
must  be  printed  first,  in  order  that  members  may  have  it  for  refer- 
ence in  checking  up  the  text  of  the  book. 
"  During  the  past  year  a  number  of  older  remedies  have  been 
deleted  and  new  remedies  admitted.  A  Committee  on  Scope  which 
reports  upon  proposed  admissions  and  deletions  have  finished  their 
work,  but  there  are  still  a  few  questions  which  can  be  settled  after 
