St. Louis Medical Society scrapbooks, 1915-1939. 1915-1939.

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St. Louis Medical Society. St. Louis Medical Society scrapbooks, 1915-1939.

St. Louis Medical Society scrapbooks, 1915-1939. 1915-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229918792

Seven scrapbooks of news clippings largely from 1915-1939, but lacking 1931-1933 and 1937-1938. The scrapbooks were probably compiled by the Society Library.The society's by-laws debarred from membership persons" holding any patent for medicines or secret remedies for diseases, or other wise announce ... superior qualifications in the cure of any particular disease or who shall publish cases of operations or boast of cures and remedies." Such ethics offenses and associated activities of the ethics committee are a recurring theme in the local newspaper coverage in the scrapbooks along with medical society meetings and speakers, its prominent member physicians (especially obituaries), and court cases against the St. Louis Medical Society and area physicians. General medical coverage is included such as city licensing of chiropodists, news concerning National University, Washington University, St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, arrests, fines, deaths and trials regarding medicines and medical practice and City Hospital. Among the topics covered in 1915 were the dedication of new buildings at Washington University, and a presentation by Dr. Goldstein on the methods used at the Central Institute for the Deaf, C.R. Woodson's breach of ethics in newspaper advertising, and the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy convention.

6.0 linear feet.

Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library