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TABLE 52.-Statistics of schools of medicine, of dentistry, and of pharmacy for 1835-'86, &c.-Continued. NOTE.-An asterisk indicates that the statistics are quoted from the report of this Officeffor 1884-'85; a dagger, that the school admits women as well as men; a double dagger, that it admits colored students. The type in which the name of a school is printed shows how many courses of lectures must be heard to complete the course of instruction, as follows: SMALL CAPITALS, three courses; italics, two courses; ordinary type, one course.

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b Apparatus. c Reported also with undergraduate, regular. d Requires four years' practice in pharmacy in addition to course. e Value of apparatus. ƒTwo years with preceptor required in addition to regular course.

Memoranda to Table 52.

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SUMMARY OF STATE LAWS REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF

MEDICINE.1

ALABAMA.

[Act approved February 9, 1877.

No person shall be permitted to practise medicine in any of its branches as a means of livelihood without having obtained a certificate of qualification, either from the Board of Censors of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, or from the board of censors of one of the county medical societies, which are in affiliation with it. The standard of qualifications for the practice of medicine, together with the rules for the government of the authorized boards of medical examiners, shall be determined from time to time by the State Medical Association. County probate judges shall keep a register of licensed practitioners.

The Board of Censors of the State Medical Association is composed of ten members, elected by the association. This board controls the county boards of censors, which are composed of five members each.

The diplomas of medical colleges confer no right to practise medicine in Alabama; nothing does that except the certificate of some medical board, based upon actual examination.

The county boards examine graduates of reputable medical colleges only; the State board alone examines non-graduates. Non-graduate applicants have become very few.

Persons proposing to begin the study of medicine are examined by the county boards in English grammar and literature, general and United States history, and the elements of arithmetic, geometry, inorganic chemistry, and physics.2

ARKANSAS.

[Act approved March 9, 1881.]

No person may practise medicine or surgery as a profession without being registered in the office of a county clerk. Any person shall be allowed so to register who shall file a certificate of qualification signed by the majority of the connty board of medical examiners of the county where he or she offers to register. County boards of examiners consist each of three persons, learned in medicine and surgery and duly registered, who are appointed by the county judges for terms of four years.

Each county board shall meet quarterly to examine all persons appearing before it who desire to practise medicine or surgery; auy person satisfying a majority of such board that he or she is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and duly qualified to practise medicine and surgery, or either, shall receive a certificate of qualification entitling to registration, which latter must be in the county where the examination was held.

Any person who has been refused registration by any county board may apply for a re-examination by the State Board of Medical Examiners, which is appointed by the Governor, and consists of five members learned in medicine and surgery, and duly registered. If, upon re-examination, such person shall be found qualified to practise, the board shall grant him or her a certificate entitling to registration in any county in the State.

No person desiring to practise medicine shall be excluded therefrom on account of any particular system or school that he may desire to practise.

(A bill requiring all practitioners to be graduates of reputable medical colleges recently passed the State senate, but failed in the house.)

CALIFORNIA.

[Acts approved April 3, 1876, and April 1, 1878.]

The Medical Society of the State of California, the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California, and the California State Homœopathic Medical Society, and no other corporation or persons, shall each appoint annually a board of examiners of seven persons, who must be regular graduates. These boards shall issue certificates to all persons desiring to practise medicine or surgery who furnish satisfactory proof of having received diplomas or licenses from legally chartered medical institutions in good standing, and (since 1876) to no others. A certificate must be signed by all the members of a board, and shall entitle the holder to practise in any part of the State. The holder must have it recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county where he resides.

This summary has been compiled from the Fifth and Eighth Annual Reports of the Illinois State Board of Health. The provisions of the several laws defining the status of physicians who were already in practise at the time they were passed have been omitted.

In 1885 sixty sets of examination papers were prepared by the county boards. Of these, two were from applicants for the study of medicine, one of whom was unsuccessful. Of the fifty-eight applicants for the practice of medicine, seven were unsuccessful. One non-graduate passed a successful examination.

ED 86-36

The board of examiners must refuse certificates to persons guilty of unprofessional conduct, and must revoke the certificates of holders so guilty. In all cases of refusal or revocation of a certificate the applicant may appeal to the body appointing the board.

(The present law is said to be unsatisfactory, as many persons have been licensed who are totally and notoriously unfit to practise medicine. On the other hand, it has served some good purpose in San Francisco, where several convictions have been had, Its constitutionality has been tried and affirmed in the supreme court.)

COLORADO.

[Act approved March 14, 1881.]

Every person practising medicine must have a certificate signed by a majority of the State Board of Medical Examiners. This board is composed of nine practising physicians, graduates of medical schools of undoubted respectability, six of the regular, two of the homeopathic, and one of the eclectic school, appointed by the Governor for terms of six years.

The board shall issue certificates entitling to practise in the State to all applicants who shall furnish satisfactory proofs of having received diplomas from some legally chartered medical institution in good standing. An applicant not having such diploma shall receive a certificate granting the same privileges upon passing an examination before the board in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pathology, surgery, obstetrics, and practice of medicine. The holder must record the certificate in the office of the county clerk in the county where he resides.

CONNECTICUT.

[Act approved April 12, 1881.]

Any itinerant person, not an inhabitant of the State, who shall publicly profess to treat, or who shall treat, diseases or injury by any drug, nostrum, manipulation, &c., must procure a license therefor. Selectmen in towns and the chief police officer in cities may issue such licenses upon the payment of twenty dollars for each day each license is to be in force. The penalty for non-compliance with this law by any person is twenty-five dollars for each day it is so non-complied with.

DELAWARE.

[Act passed April 19, 1883.]

It shall not be lawful for any person to practise medicine or surgery in Delaware who has not graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine and receved a diploma from some medical college authorized to grant diplomas, unless in possession of a license from a board of medical examiners. This board is required to grant a license for practice in the State to any applicant who shall produce a diploma from a respectable medical college, or who shall, upon full and impartial examination, be found qualified for such practice.

Any person seeking to practise medicine transiently in this State shall appear before any clerk of peace and satisfy him that the provisions of the law have been complied with; whereupon such clerk shall, upon the payment of $200 per annum, issue to him a license to practise throughout the State.

FLORIDA.

[Act approved March 7, 1881.]

There shall be appointed by the Governor six boards of medical examiners, composed each of from three to five practitioners of five years' practice in the State, and focated, respectively, at Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Key West, Ocala, and Tampa, who shall examine persons not graduates of medicine who may purpose to practise medicine, surgery, or obstetrics in the State. Such examination shall include the branches of anatomy, operative and minor, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of women and children, and the general laws of health. The boards shall issue certificates to that purport to persons found competent.

GEORGIA.

[Act approved September 28, 1881.]

No person shall practise medicine in this State until he has been authorized to do so by a diploma from an incorporated medical college, and by registering, in the office of the clerk of the superior court in the county where he intends to practise, his name, residence, and place of birth, together with his authority for practising medicine. The person so registering shall make an affidavit stating whether such authority is by diploma or license, the date of the same, and by whom granted.

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