Jacobs reports on the motion made at a recent Conference in Baltimore, presided over by Welch and attended by a number of physicians interested in the study of Tuberculosis, to create a committee to deal with the present Tuberculosis issue in the U.S. The members of the committee are: Osler, Trudeau, T. Smith, Adami, V.Y. Bowditch, Knopf, Ravenel, Klebs, Janeway, Jacobs, Bracken, Flick and Biggs.
Jacobs requests a confirmation of Flick's willingness to serve on the Tuberculosis Committee. The first meeting of the Committee will be held in New York on February 27, 1904.
Jacobs accepts the invitation to the Maragliano luncheon and to the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee in Philadelphia. He has sent out invitations to other members of the Committee in Baltimore.
Jacobs is sorry to hear that Maragliano has cancelled his visit to Philadelphia on account of illness. He accepts the invitation to Flick's luncheon for selected members of the Tuberculosis Committee.
Jacobs agrees with Flick that the staff of the Phipps Institute ought to be invited to attend the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee.
Minutes of the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee. Jacobs provides a list of physicians who attended the meeting at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia to discuss the formation of a national society for the study of Tuberculosis. During the meeting, over which Osler presided, it was decided that a United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis be organized.
Arrangements for a Tuberculosis Committee meeting in New York to discuss the constitution, by-laws, and personnel of the newly formed United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis.
Jacobs compliments Flick on his proposed constitution and by-laws for the newly formed United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis. The next meeting of the Society will take place at the New York home of Dr. Biggs.
Jacobs encloses a list of candidates for the Board of Directors for the newly formed, and newly renamed, Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. He asks Flick to revise the constitution and by-laws, which were agreed upon at the last meeting of the Association at the New York home of Dr. Biggs.
Jacobs suggests the names of additional candidates for the Board of Directors for the newly formed Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Jacobs writes of matters relating to the newly formed Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The composition of the Board of Directors is of such importance that Osler has organized a special meeting to settle the issue.
Invitation to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in Boston.
At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Flick, Biggs and Bowditch were appointed members of the Committee of Admission of Members to the Society.
At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Osler, Knopf, Biggs, Bowditch, and Flick were named by the President of the Association, Trudeau, as representatives for the United States for the International Central Bureau of Tuberculosis.
Jacobs writes of matters relating to the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, namely membership and hiring an executive officer.
(Cable). Jacobs informs Osler that his friends have established that night the Osler Fund of ten thousand dollars for the Faculty Library. Civilities.
Jacobs provides details of the famed Dismal Swamp expedition with Osler and Futcher in April of 1900. Osler recorded his famous story of the swamp in a copy of Burton's Anatomy. Jacobs writes of affairs at the Johns Hopkins regarding MacCallum and McRae.