They are unalike and far apart, these 13 past editors of The Journal. Between Nathan S. Davis's first issue and William R. Barclay's retirement, there was almost a century of change in medicine, society, the American Medical Association, prose style, and editorial needs. During these years, the editors ranged from the brilliant organizers John B. Hamilton and George H. Simmons to the diligent John H. Hollister and the devoted Johnson F. Hammond. There were editors with the hot determination of James C. Culbertson, John H. Talbott, and Robert H. Moser, and there were those with the cool precision of Austin Smith and Hugh H. Hussey. They varied from Morris Fishbein, who wrote and spoke "with the grade of an eagle in its unhindered soar," to Truman W. Miller, who wrote scarcely a word. Here, briefly, they are together.
《期刊》的这13位历任编辑各不相同，相隔甚远。从内森·S·戴维斯的第一期到威廉·R·巴克利退休，医学、社会、美国医学协会、散文风格和编辑需求几乎经历了一个世纪的变迁。在这些年里，编辑们从才华横溢的组织者约翰·B·汉密尔顿和乔治·H·西蒙斯，到勤奋的约翰·H·霍利斯特和忠诚的约翰逊·F·哈蒙德。有像詹姆斯·C·卡尔伯森、约翰·H·塔尔博特和罗伯特·H·莫泽那样热情坚定的编辑，也有像奥斯汀·史密斯和休·H·赫西那样冷静严谨的编辑。他们各不相同，从写作和演讲“如雄鹰自由翱翔般出色”的莫里斯·菲什拜因，到几乎不写一个字的杜鲁门·W·米勒。在此，他们简要地汇聚一堂。
