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The Special Problem of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnant Women
C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;101(1):60-66.
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Mr. Chairman, let me express my gratitude for the privilege of delivering this lecture. Dr. Walter L. Bierring, present here today, was good enough to dip down into the inexhaustible well of his historical knowledge and tell me something about the founding and development of this lectureship. It was proposed in 1927 by Dr. Henry A. Christian. The original five trustees were Lewellys F. Barker, Rollin T. Woodyatt, Eugene F. Kilgore, Warfield T. Longcope, and Walter L. Bierring. In 1928 the Section voted to name the annual lecture in honor of Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago. This was in recognition of Dr. Billings' many important contributions to the activities of the Section and of his general eminence as a teacher, practitioner, and statesman of medicine.
The Billings Lecture, in my view, has three distinctions. It is named for a great figure in American medicine, it is the official lectureship of
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Author Affiliations
Boston
From the Department of Medicine of the Harvard Medical School and the Medical Services of the Boston Lying-in and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 25, 1957.
Supported in part by a grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
This paper is being published simultaneously in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Billings Lecture, read before the Section on Internal Medicine at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 5, 1957.
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