Members of the state medical society organized to do their own research and contest the rules.
To form a state society, the minimum number of chapters is two.
The state medical society has tried to block their use, even offering to support legal challenges.
The state medical society opposed the policy and the courts ordered it stopped.
But even the state medical society said it was reserving judgment on the plan, which would likely require a review every six years.
Most doctors answered the questions last year, but 5 to 10 percent refused to do so pending the outcome of the state medical society's suit.
Membership has been expanded in some state societies to include descendants of those who died during the war, but it remains limited.
The total membership of state societies has for many years steadily held in the range of 4,000 to 4,500.
He was appointed secretary of the state agricultural society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899.
The 1899 bill stated precisely the duties of the new state historical society:
