The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-29
LOCAL MATTERS.

was held at IL o'clock, yesterday morning, in the
| Athsraurn large number of members being in
| attendance The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved. Professor Maupin then rose
to personal explanation of his remarks on Tues
| day in regard to the appointment oil Medical
Board of Examiners after which, on motion, the
reporters of the city were invited to take seats in
the meeting. Twenty-eight members were then
nominated as fellows Of the Society and unani.
mously received.
! DR.. Wilson the n submitted the following resolu-
| tons -
Rcsotred LIST, That the Medical Society of vir-
onis, n annual meeting convened, heartily approve
/ tbs. etorts heretofore made for the thorough and
efficient organization of the profession, aud we the
| members do pledge ourselves that these efforts
| shat not be relaxed until our Society shall become
what it was designed to be by its founders, TO VIII
| perfect and authoritative embodiment ofthe meG-
| icai men of Virginia. Adopted.
Resotced I'd, That this Society regards with I'M
qualified appreciation the efforts now being made
tor the establishment by law OF State Board OF
Medical Examiners, and that we look confidently
TO this great atfording the only efecfua
safeguard to the people, against the dangers OF ig'
norance, and the only sire protector to the proies
| sion from still more humility and degradation.
ResoIred Sd, That We the members of this Society
do pledge ourselves from this time forward to use
unremltting diligence in behalf OF this measure, and
that cur efforts shall never cease, until Iney are
| crowned with complete success.
Resotred 4th, That we approve In the main OF Inc
/ bill reported by the committee OF the Senate as
probably the best tn It can be done at present. out
that it will De the aim and pleasure OF the Society
through its nominees for this Board, constantly TO
increase the stringency OF its provisions, and to ell
| evate the standard OF requirement
ReSotred 5th, That this Society takes deep inter-
est in the schools of Virginia. and in its opinion the
/ establishment of State Board of Medical Examln-
! MT
State Medical Schools inasmuch as it would effect
uaily project them Gin raising their standards OF
requirement for the doctorate) against the compe
ntlon OF foreign schools, and our young men would
/ be educated within borders to meet the re-
| quirements OF our Board.
DR.. w. supported the resolutions in some remarks
explanatory of their general character. He then
advocated at length the separation of the licensing
from the teaching power, and referred in terms OF
commentator to the bill now before the Senate ct
Virginia, regulating the admission of physicians
and surgeons to the practice of medicine and sur
gerry in the United States. He commended that the
effect of this separation, through the appointment
of Board Of Medical Examiners, would be to pro-
tect the medical schools of Virginia against foreign
competition and build them up; and also TO exert
highly beneficial influence upon the pr ofession at
| large, rendering practitioners more thorough and
capable: Reference was made to the Army and
Navy Boards OF Examination, the effect of which
was seen in the fact that the flower of the medical
profession was engaged in those branches of the
national service He believed that in civil life
similar board would exert a like beneficial iniu-
ence. By the provisions of the bill, the board
would be under the supreme control of the medical
men of the State; and there was not the slightest
1nt of3a
Meme but the highest class of physicians would fill
the board, and the compensation was of too trifing
character to exert any undue pecuniary influence
over it. He CDR. W. had great confidence in teach
ers and in schools, examiners but if the present
system of licensing had subserved its purpose, why
were they there to take measures for the proven.
ton of the evils resulting from the ignorance of
practitioners
Iswould be seen by reference to the 14th section
of the BILL that it did not require old practitioners
in the State to undergo examination before they
continued to practice after the law went into force
they were only required to obtain license This
was no az post facto law-but one simply having
reference to the future, and intended to shut down
the food gates that were letting in the ignorant
and tine quack practitioners For the instruction
of the bin referred to, now before the Senate, are
as follows:
Organization of the Board-In the second sec
ton 1t is made the duty OF the medical society of
VirgioiH, annually to elect by ballot from among
its members eleven physicians of established skill
and reputation, and nominate them to the Governor
OF the State who shall appoint seven of the nomi.
nees to constitute the Board of Medical Examiners
said members of the Board to hold their offices
for three years.
Compensation Of the Members ofthe Board.-Their
compensation tor service Is four dollars per day for
al. many days as the Board may be actually in ses
sion, and ten cents mileage for every mile by the
most direct mail route.
Duties of the Board.-In the sixth section If is
made the duty of the Board to examine Thorough
ly, fairly, and impartially all persons who may
properly apply to them, on the subjects of Anato
my. Physiology, and Surgery, the principles aud
practice OF Medicine and Obstetrics Materia Medi.
ca, Pharmacy and Chemistry, without allowing
themselves to be influenced by prejudice against
or Partially for any particular school, sect or doc
trine, and to all whom they shall find possessed of
| a competent knowledge of these subjects-they
shall give certificate ofquaiihcalion certifying the
same
Terms of Licensing-Each applicant before re.
ceiving an examination by the Board, must exhibit
certificate signed by at least two respectable citi
zens certifying that he is less than 81 years of
age, and is of good moral character, paying into
the hands OF the Treasurer of the Board twenty
dollars.
license to practice medicine surgery shall be
granted to no person until he shall have obtained
Ger tfcate OF qualification from the State Board IT
Medical Examiners; and ii any one shall urac.
tee as physician or surgeon, without having first
obtained license according to law, he shall forfeit
ana pay for every prescription sum not less tnan
nifty dollars nor more than one hundred to be re.
covered with cost of suit by action of debt in any
court OF judicature within the county where sucn
offence is committed the one halt to be given n,
the prosecutor and the other half to be paid into
the treasury OF the county in which said offender
resides. -
E1cep,i0ns-The fourteenth section provides
that any person being practitioner of medicine or
surgery within the limits of this Commonwealth
previous to the time when this act takes effecr
shall be exempt from those provisions requiring =
certificate OF qualification to be obtained before an
issue OF lcense and all such persons shall obtain
license to practice medicine and surgery, in the
manner prescribed by law. The law to take efsses
on and alter the lst of January, 1881
The question was then taken upon the resolution.
separately and the first three were adopted unani
u3nu ettoat