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This Article • References • Full text PDF • Send to a friend You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Select Journal or Resource ABOUT ARCHIVES Search: Advanced Search Welcome | My Account | E-mail Alerts | RSS | Access Rights | Sign In Home Current Issue Past Issues Topic Collections Physician Jobs Submit Subscribe Help Information for: Authors/Reviewers Vol. 104 No. 5, November 1962 Archives •Online Features ARTICLES Modern Materia Medica LAWSON WILKINS, M.D. • Send to a friend • Save in My Folder • Save to citation manager • Permissions Citing Articles • Contact me when this article is cited Related Content • Similar articles in this journal Social Bookmarking What's this? LAWSON WILKINS, M.D. Am J Dis Child. 1962;104(5):449-456. Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. In 1921 when I entered practice after declining an invitation to continue in the academic fold, I asked my friend, Wilburt Davison, whether I should apply for membership in the American Pediatric Society. He very kindly explained that things were not done that way. I shall not discuss the devious means by which I finally crawled under the tent. Last spring while on a honeymoon in Europe I was told that I had been given the presidency as a wedding present. I appreciate the honor and thank you all. Along with the honor of the office comes the formidable task of delivering a presidential address. In reading over the speeches of my predecessors I was much impressed with their high standards, and I feel quite incapable of equaling their excellence in philosophizing upon the pathways of pediatric practice, education, or research. In fact all the geographic landmarks such as the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article ] Author Affiliations BALTIMORE Presidential address, American Pediatric Society, Atlantic City, N.J., May 10, 1962. Footnotes Submitted for publication May 9, 1962. CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Reddit Technorati Twitter What's this? HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | PHYSICIAN JOBS | SUBMIT | SUBSCRIBE | HELP CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP © 1962 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
