1948

Establishment of American Academy of Neurology, at a time when ANA had fewer than 200 members: “Experience in World War II with central and peripheral nerve injuries had stimulated a rejuvenated interest in the treatment of neurological patients and the training of a young generation of practitioners to perform this treatment; indeed the numbers of such patients was sizable, with 44,000 of the 74,000 Veterans Administration hospital beds filled with neuropsychiatric patients in April 1946” (Louis, 344). Main opposition to AAN was in Boston-NY-Phila. area (349) . . . “The long-existing ANA actively resisted the new organization” (353). Establishment of National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness provided “the true impetus for the development of clinical neurology” (Rowland, 108).