A window into early 20th-century medicine and professional life. This volume collects wide-ranging material from The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, offering a firsthand look at ethical debates, professional standards, and clinical topics that shaped medical practice in 1916.
The issue features editorials on ethics and membership, reports on finances and library governance, and reflections from leaders at the St. Louis Medical Society. It also includes clinical discussions and reviews that illuminate the era’s medical thinking, from syphilis to surgical topics, and notes on medical education and public health.
- How a medical society handled ethics, discipline, and governance in a formative era.
- Contemporary attitudes toward medical advertising, quackery, and professional integrity.
- A snapshot of clinical topics and how practitioners discussed and documented cases and treatments.
- A sense of the era’s medical publishing, education, and organizational priorities.
Ideal for readers of medical history, professional journals, and those curious about the social life of medicine in 1916.