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Leading Physicians Washington, Dec. 20.
The first round of a nation-wide battle over the future of the practice of medicine ended in triumph for the proponents of ce-operative methods today when a Federal Grand Jury found true bills of indictment against -the American Medical Association, the District of Columbia Medical Society, the Washington (DE.) Academy of Surgery, the Harris County (Texas) Medical Society and 21 individuals on charges of having violated the Antltrust laws.
The list of individuals indicted was headed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, spokesman of the ultra-conservative wing of the American Medical Association. Most of the others are high officials, either of the American Medical Association or of the officiate ed District of Columbia Medical Society. On the outcome of the case the fate of ce-operative medicine in the United States was believed to depend.
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