RT Journal
A1 Kelly M
T1 LIgue internationale contre le rhumatisme
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1963
FD January 1
VO 111
IS 1
SP 129
OP 130
DO 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250133034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250133034
AB The 1955 (second) edition of the Year Book, edited by Dr. Dick Smith of Philadelphia, was larger than the first which simply contained lists of rheumatologists in various countries. Dr. Smith improved on this by supplying a great amount of detail about the American Rheumatism Association and the local rheumatism associations of a number of states in the U.S.A. After the Ninth Congress of Rheumatology in Toronto in 1957 the secretariat moved to Paris for 4 years, with Professor F. Coste as President and Professor Delbarre as Secretary-General. Delbarre resolved to improve the Year Book still further, chiefly by increasing the amount of miscellaneous information about European and South American countries. In 1959 and 1960 he sent questionnaires to all the national rheumatism associations, and to a number of individual rheumatologists too. (Some of the information about Australia has been provided by me.) Professor Delbarre is a man of great