people who spearheaded the whole activity, the most influential and successful was a man named james reeves, reeves was a genuine believer in public health and a fanatical believer in science as the future of medicine. so fanatical that he would not allow any of his members of his medical organizations that were not medical, for example he had one man thrown out of the medical society because the man's father in law was physician of a different sort, homeopathic physician. reeves felt that family gatherings you must talk to your life's father, automatically or expelled from our society because you are talking -- that is what a fanatic he was. to give him his credit, he was genuinely committed to public health. one of the founding members of the american public health association, very politically astute, he is the one more than anybody else who engineers passage of this law. he is the one who engineers the alliance with the railroad mining corporations. it is important to think of this decision is not creating a national medical profession but instead enabling the legislature one at a time

the most influential and successful of them was a man named james reed. reeves was a genuine believer in public health. he was also a fanatical believer in science as the future of medicine. but he was so fanatical that he would not allow any of his members of his medical organization to even to talk to physicians. at work medical , that were not ana doctors. >> for example, he had one man thrown out of the medical society because the man father-in-law was a physician of a different sort, a homeopathic physician and reeves felt that at family gatherings you must be talking to your father-in-law, you must talk to your wife's father. that means automatically your expelled from our society because you're talking , that's what a fanatic he was. he was also, to give him his credit hewas also genuinely committed to public health. one of the founding members of the american public health association . and very politically astute. and he is the one more than anybody else engineers passage of this law. he's the one who engineers the alliance with a big railroad siding co

the most influential and successful was a man named james reeves. reeves was a genuine believer in public health and a fanatical lever in science as the future of medicine. he is so fanatical that he would the members off his medical organization to even to talk to physicians that were not medical, that were not ama-type doctors. for example, he had one man thrown out of the medical society because the man's father-in-law was a physician of a different sort, a homeopathic atsician, and reeves felt family gatherings you must be talking to your father-in-law in law, that means automatically you are expelled from our society because you're talking to him. to his credit, he was genuinely committed to public health. -- foundingounty members of the american public health association and politically astute. he is the one more than anybody who engineered passage of this law. he is the one who engineers the alliance with the big railroad, mining corporations. it is important to think of this decision as not creating a national medical profession, but instead