1919

Formation of Society of Neurological Surgeons, with Cushing first president (Thomson, 209-210); founding of Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry by AMA in reaction against Jelliffe’s Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (Burnham, 310ff); formation of International League of Red Cross Societies in Cannes, under leadership of Welch (Flexner, 377-81). American College of Surgeons produced first list of approved hospitals, but list was suppressed owing to “horrifying conditions” at many larger, better hospitals encountered by Bowman during site visits of 1918-1919. (Stevens, 128-129). AMA Council on Medical Education brought out “The Essentials of an Approved Medical College” (129).