New York Academy of Medicine : Centenary Celebrations

Abstract

THE first meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine was held on January 6, 1847, when the founders dedicated themselves to the establishment of an institution for the improvement of medical education, the advancement of the public health, the elimination of quackery and malpractice and the instruction of the public on matters of health and hygiene. Centenary celebrations will begin on March 6, with an assembly of the fellowship and the friends of the Academy, when the centennial discourse will be delivered by Prof. John A. Ryle, head of the Institute of Social Medicine at Oxford, who will speak on “Social Pathology and the New Era in Medicine”. Following this meeting, a series of activities in the Academy building have been planned which will continue throughout March and April. Each of the eleven sections of the Academy will celebrate the centennial with a dinner of its own members, followed by a meeting in which eminent authorities in the specialty will participate. Each of the Academy's standing committees has arranged for a three-day conference, dealing with post-graduate medical education, public health, social medicine, hospitals and medical libraries respectively.