simply a certificate that he has attended it. That will count in any Chicago regular school as the first year of the three years' required course. The President has prepared a series of circulars here, calling attention to this fact, and I would call your especial attention to them. It seems to me that this is one of the most important steps that has been taken, looking to a higher and better form of medical education in the State, and I think I may say in the Northwest. It shows that this matter of medical education is prominent in the professional mind at the present time, and it is universally lamented that our standpoint of education is so low. I feel quite sure that as a rule the medical student suffers more from lack of preliminary education, than lack of medical education. The student who starts out with a good practical foundation of a scientific character for the study of medicine, is well calculated to make up for any deficiencies he may experience in his regular medical education. If he fails to start out with that foundation, it takes a great many years of very careful and hard professional study to make up for the deficiency. I think, therefore, in behalf of the profession of this State, we should feel especially grateful to the Regents for making this provision. I would say briefly, in regard to the facilities offered by the University, that they are exceptionally fine. The laboratories, the libraries, the facilities of all kinds, I believe are not equaled in this country; and so far as I know, the branches of preliminary education offered at John Hopkins, at Yale, at Cornell, and I think also at Harvard, are certainly not more complete or perfect than is this course. It seemed to me, therefore, proper to submit in this connection the following resolutions, inasmuch as this has been done entirely at our instance. The Regents have done this at the request and special suggestion of the State Society.

Resolved, That we approve heartily the Special Science Course, antecedent to the study of medicine now offered to students by the University of Wisconsin, and that, on behalf of the medical profession of the State, we extend thanks to the Regents and faculty of the University for this effort to elevate and broaden the standard of medical education.

Resolved, That we commend the course to all students contemplating the study of medicine, as affording a broad and solid. foundation for a professional career, and that we request our members to advise their students to enter upon this course if their time and means admit of it.

Dr. Barnett: I move the adoption of the resolutions presented by Dr. Dodson. The motion was adopted.

The resolutions previously offered by Dr. Dodson relating to the unofficinal formulary, were then brought up and adopted as follows: Resolved, That the Unofficinal Formulary, compiled and published under the authority of the American Pharmaceutical Association, has our hearty endorsement, as exactly supplying a need long felt by both the medical and pharmaceutical professions.

Resolved, That we commend it to the physicians of the State, and would urge upon them that they familiarize themselves with its formulæ, make it a companion volume to the pharmacopoeia in their daily practice, and seek by its use to relieve the profession of the unprofessional and unscientific custom of prescribing trade products.

The Secretary presented a communication from the State Medical Society of Arkansas, which asks the co-operation of this association and of all Medical Associations in matters relating to the patronage given to Charlatanism by the Religious press of our country. The communication was on motion referred to the committee on Ethics for report.

The hour set apart for the report of the Special Committee on Medical Legislation having arrived, that Committee presented as its report the draft of a Medical Practice Bill, with the recommendation that the Society use its influence in securing the enactment of the same into law.

The report of the committee was discussed at some length, and after various amendments to the proposed Bill, the report was adopted, the Bill as amended being as follows:

A BILL to regulate the Practice of Medicine, and to prevent incompetent persons from Practicing Medicine in the State of Wisconsin.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION I. On or before May 1, 1889, the Governor of the State shall appoint seven reputable physicians, each a graduate of a legally chartered medical institution in good standing, and practicing medicine in the State of Wisconsin, who shall constitute the State Board of Medical Examiners.

Provided, that, of the seven physicians first appointed, three shall be appointed for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years. Thereafter the Governor shall annually make appointments to fill the vacancies of those whose

terms expire. The term of office of said members thus appointed shall be three years, and each member shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified.

Provided, further, that in case a vacancy is created by the death, resignation, or removal from office of any member of the Board, the Governor shall, upon notification by the Secretary thereof, appoint a successor to fill the vacancy thus created.

SECTION II. Said Board shall organize on or before June 1, 1889, by the election of a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, elected for a term of one year, and shall procure and keep a common seal. The President and Secretary shall have the power to admininister oaths in matters pertaining to the business of said Board.

SECTION III. Said Board shall hold meetings for medical examıinations at Madison, on the second Tuesday of January and July of each year, and at Milwaukee on the second Tuesday of April and October of each year, and at such other times and places as the Board may from time to time appoint.

Said Board shall keep a record of all proceedings thereof, and a register of all applicants for license, together with his or her age, time spent in the study of medicine, the name and location of all institutions granting to such applicants degrees in medicine and surgery, and said Board shall further preserve a copy of all questions submitted to applicants in examination, with their answers thereto. Said record, register and documents, attested by the seal of the Board shall be prima facie evidence of matters therein recorded, and shall be deemed public records. Said Board shall annnually transmit to the Governor of the State a report of all business transacted, together with a report of all moneys received and expended.

SECTION IV. All persons, before entering upon the practice of medicine and surgery in any of its branches, in this State after May 1, 1889, shall apply to said Board for a license so to do; said applicant shall present a diploma in Medicine issued to him by a legally chartered medical institution in good standing; Such applicant shall then submit to an examination in the following branches, to wit: Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Pathology, the Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and such other branches as the Board may deem advisable; such examinations shall be conducted wholly in writing, and shall be of sufficient severity to test the candidate's fitness to practice medicine and surgery. Any registered physician of the State, who so desires, shall be permitted to be present at such examination. If such examinations be satisfactory, the Board shall issue a license to such applicant to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Wisconsin, which license shall only be granted by the consent of not less than five members of the Board, and shall be signed by the President and Secretary of the Board and attested by the seal thereof. The fee for such examination shalll be fifteen dollars ($15.00), and

shall be paid in advance by the applicant to the Treasurer of the Board. Said fee shall be returned to the applicant in case he fails to pass the examination. And said Board shall have the power to refuse or revoke a license for dishonorable or immoral conduct.

SECTION V. Every person legally engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in this State, prior to the first day of May, 1889, and who shall furnish to the Board of examiners satisfactory evidence of such fact, supported by his affidavit, shall be entitled to a license without examination upon making application to said Board before the first day of January, 1890, and upon the payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00). Such application may be made by letter or by proxy. Provided, that in case of failure to comply with this provision within the time specified, he shall comply with the requirements for registration provided in Section IV. The said Board may grant licenses without examination, to licentiates of such other State Boards of Medical Examiners, as it may deem proper, upon the payment of a fee of five dollars ($5.00).

SECTION VI. The person so receiving said license, shall, within thirty days after its receipt, present the same or a certified copy thereof, to the register of deeds of the county in which he or she resides, and said register of deeds shall copy said certificate, or copy thereof, noting the date of such presentation, in a book to be provided for that purpose. Said register of deeds shall annually furnish to the State Board of Examiners, a list of all certificates on file in his office; and upon notice to him of the change of location, or death, of a person so licensed, or a revocation of the license granted to such person, said register of deeds shall enter at the appropriate place in such record kept by him, a memorandum of such facts. In case a person so licensed shall remove to another county in the State, he shall procure from the register of deeds a certified copy of said license, and file the same with the register of deeds of the county into which he or she shall so remove; said register of deeds shall file and enter the same as if it were an original license.

SECTION VII. Any person shall be deemed as practicing medicine and surgery, within the meaning of this act, who shall publicly profess to be a physician, surgeon or obstetrician, or who shall assume the duties thereof, who shall attach the letters M. D. to his or her name, who shall publicly profess to treat, cure or heal any wound, fracture or bodily injury, infirmity or disease, or who shall accept a fee for such service. But nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit students of medicine, surgery or obstetrics from practicing under the direct supervision of a licensed physician, nor shall it apply to anyone rendering gratuitous services in case of emergency, nor to women actually engaged in the practice of midwifery in this State at the time of the passage of this act. Nor shall this act apply to commissioned surgeons in the United States Army and Navy, nor to physicians in actual consultation from another

State, but physicians of an adjoining State, whose practice extends into this State, shall comply with the provisions of this act, and the license of such physicians shall be registered in a county of this State into which their practice extends.

SECTION VIII. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than six months nor more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.

SECTION IX. The district attorney of the proper county shall, on notice given to him by any justice of the peace for said county, before whom any complaint shall be made for any violation of the provisions of this act, attend the examination before said justice and conduct the same on behalf of the State.

SECTION X. The members of said Board shall each receive the sum of ten dollars ($10) for each day actually engaged in the performance of their duties, and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in such service, and shall be authorized to pay a salary to the Secretary of said Board and to incur such other expenses as may be necessary. The Treasurer of the Board shall semi-annually transmit to the State Treasurer all moneys received with an itemized account of the receipts and disbursements of the Board. Requisitions on the State Treasurer for funds to defray the expenses of the Board shall be made by the Treasurer of the Board signed by the President and Secretary thereof, at such times as they may deem necessary, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay such moneys on the requisition aforesaid.

SECTION XI. All acts or portions of acts in conflict with this statute are hereby repealed.

SECTION XII. This act shall be in force on and after its passage and publication.

Following the adoption of the above report, Dr. J. M. Dodson presented the following resolutions which were also adopted:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed who shall be empowered to represent the Society before the Legislature, and to use all honorable means to secure the enactment of this statute. It shall further be empowered to appoint sub-committees from the members of the Society for any purpose it may deem necessary.

Resolved, That the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) or such portion thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to said committee from the funds of the Society not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses (other than the personal expenses) of this committee in the furtherance of the ends of this resolution.

Dr. Armstrong: We will now proceed to the consideration of