1868

New York Medico-Legal Society receives charter (the same year a similar organization was established in Paris) though it had little positive impact on relationship of law and medicine. Clark Bell (a lawyer) became president in 1872 and dominated the organization (via his obsession with the medical jurisprudence of insanity) until his death in 1918, when the society ceased to function (Mohr, 219-222). Of similar, less formal organizations in other cities, “none of them amounted to much” (272). AMA formally recommended that schools to train nurses be attached to hospitals (Schultz, 389).