JAMA Network October 3, 2023
Originally Published October 6, 1923 | JAMA. 1923;81(14):1157- 1160.
L. Emmett Holt, M.D., L.L.D., New York
Twenty-five years ago the American Pediatric Society first honored me with the presidency. The intervening years have seen some interesting and important changes in all departments of medicine, in none more than in pediatrics. The present occasion suggests some comparisons between pediatrics of a quarter century ago and pediatrics of today.
The program of the meeting of 1898 included twenty-one papers. Of this number only one—by Dr. R. G. Freeman, on the pasteurization of milk—represented a laboratory investigation. All the others were what we would term clinical papers. Thirteen of them were case reports and discussions, and the remainder were general papers on...
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