Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-31

committal by the Judiciary committee. The
bill is entitled can act to regulate the quail
fcations of practitioners in medicine and sur
| gerry" 1t provides for council Of seven
persons, two to be chosen by the trustees of
| the Medical School of Maine, two by the
Maine Medical Association, and two to be
appointed by the Governor, these persons to
| elect President Of the council. The MEM
bers ofthe first council shall be appointed for
a term of two and four years; but thereafter
members shall be elected for four years; the
president, also, shall be elected for four years
The council to be recompensed for attendance
at meetings and travelling expenses. A reg
istrar, to be appointed by the general council,
shall keep his register correct according to
the orders and regulations of the council
Every person now possessed of diploma from
the Medical School of Maine or any other
public medical institution in the United States
where the course Of study and requirements
for graduation are not below what is required
in the Medical School of Maine, and every
person hereafter becoming possessed of SIM
liar qualifications; and every person who
shall pass satisfactory examination before
the general council in all the branches Of
learning taught in the Medical School of Maine,
or such an examination as shall in the judg-
ment Of the general council be equivalent to
a full examination in all the aforesaid branches
of learning shall on payment of fee of five
dollars, be entitled to be registered, on pro.
ducing to the general council such diploma or
certificate of such satisfactory examination
before the general council 1t shall be I'M
lawful for the general council to impose upon
any person, proposing to register or offering
himself for examination an obligation to adopt
or refrain from adopting the practice of any
particular theory of medicine, as a test or
condition of admitting him to examination or
Of granting certificate of qualifications. Ev-
cry year there shall be printed correct reg
lister of the names, residence, medical titles,
etc, of those who have been recorded, under
the title of "The Medical Register" which
shall be evidence in court and before trial
justices and others that the persons named in
the register have complied with the conditions
of law. If any person registered shall be
convicted Of felony, crime, or offence, the
council may direct the registrar to erase his
name. Every person registered shall be en-
titled to practice medicine and surgery, as
the case may be- in any part of the State, and
to demand and recover in any court of law,
with full costs of suit, reasonable charges for
professional aid advice and visits, and the
cost of any medicines or other medical or sur
gical appliances rendered or supplied by him
to his patients. A fine of not less than $40
and costs shall be imposed upon all practi-
TONERS whose names are not registered after
the lst of January, 1873 this not to apply to
practitioners living without the State who
may be called into the State for purposes of
consultation. The money received by the
treasurer, arising from fees of registration,
sale of registers, penalties, etc, is to be ap-
piled for expenses of registration and of the
execution of the act Nothing in the act is to
affect the business of chemists druggists,
or dentists, in the sale or compromising of
medicine. There are penalties imposed
against fraud and impositions, and other ma
chinery to carry out the provisions of the
bill, but we have given its substance