The Fall schedule of society meetings and lectures will be announced during the summer. Membership is open to anyone interested in the history of medicine. The lectures are free and open to the public. For information on membership in the Society, call or write to the Dittrick Medical History Center . The Ohio Academy of Medical History meets once a year to hear papers on the history of medicine, particularly in Ohio.
Membership is open to anyone interested in the subject.
The 1998 meeting will be in Cleveland at the Dittrick Medical History Center. Date to be announced. The Section on Historical Medicine of the New York Academy of Medicine announces its schedule of public lectures for 1998-99 . The Inaugural Thesis was an essay which had to be written by each candidate for the Doctor of Medicine degree at Albany Medical College in New York, founded in 1839 as one of the nation's first private medical schools. The thesis was written in the student's own hand on special paper, and delivered to his preceptor two weeks prior to graduation.