Treatment of Polycythaemia with Radioactive Phosphorus

Abstract

meetings were held in 1915 and 1916, and by the end of the war the financial position of the Association was extremely bad.The turning-point came at the annual meeting in Halifax in 1921.It was realized then that reorganization was essential.The various provincial organizations had not been brought closely enough into relationship with the Association, and the finances needed immediate attention.A full-time secretary was appointed in the person of Dr. T. C. Routley, a bond issue was raised, and once more the Association began to expand.Within a few years it had paid off the bond issue and was showing the vigour and growth which has brought it to its present stature.The Association has continued not only to deal with the profession's educational and economic problems, but to concern itself with social and political developments.Post- graduate lectures were first organized in 1925, and were carried on throughout Canada for seven years, with the help of generous grants from the Sun Life Assurance Company.A Department of Hospital Service, also aided by this company, was carried on for 20 years.Health insurance has probably occupied the attention of the Association more continuously than has any other subject.The principle of insurance against the cost of ill- ness has received the support of the Association, particu- larly through the medium of prepaid medical care plans.The first proposals to establish a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada were made at the annual meeting in Vancouver in 1920, the primary object being to stimulate study and postgraduate work in medicine and surgery.The idea gradually matured, and the College was finally incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1929.Once launched, the College became an entirely independent organization.Inspection and accreditation of hospitals is one of the later activities of the Association.This work had previously been done in Canada by the American College of Surgeons, and on their withdrawal from this particular field the Asso- ciation initiated plans for the necessary machinery to carry it on.To Dr. E. K. Lyon, of Leamington, Ont., is due most of the credit for focusing attention on the importance of this phase of hospital life and of eventually bringing into being the Commission to deal with it.The C.M.A. contributes the major part of the very heavy cost of this work.Formation of a College of General Practice originated