A resolution passed by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1925 empowered the Board of Trustees to appoint a council on "'nonmedicinal agents' similar to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry." 1 The council appointed by the Board of Trustees was originally named the Council on Physical Therapy. At its first meeting, on Oct. 16, 1925, the following members were present: Drs. W. R. Bovie, Boston, biophysicist; Arthur Compton, Chicago, physicist; Ralph Pemberton, Philadelphia, internist; Harry E. Mock, Chicago, surgeon and the Council's first Chairman; George Miller MacKee, New York, dermatologist; Arthur U. Desjardins, Rochester, Minn., radiologist; A. S. Warthin, Ann Arbor, Mich., pathologist; Francis Carter Wood, New York, pathologist; and Walter B. Cannon, Boston, physiologist. 1 In 1944, the name was changed to the Council on Physical Medicine because this was a more inclusive term and, as stated in an editorial inThe Journal, 2 because