New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-13
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
REGisTRATION OF PHYSICIANS.

TARDY COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF
THE LAw-APPRovAL OF TnE MEASURE BY REF
UTABIE PHYSICIANS.
An act was passed by the last Legislature PROVED
ing for the registration of physicians and surgeons
at the Office of the County Clerk II requires every
medical or surgical practitioner to fill sworn GER
5sle STATING nh The mann paSs Gi c ""S
under whose authority he received his uP"n oa
or license. The penalty for non con pll;nsnc &c
with this regulation is fine of 500. onc-haIt OF
which Is payable To the nfOrmcr Any person
making a false registry is liable 10 punishment Tor
perjury; and for practising under an lli,Fa"y t pr
cured diploma or license the penalty = me Oh lIuln
$50 TO 800 The act requires that all PRACTITIONERS
shall register on or before October |.
A recent visit TO the office of the County Cicik
showed that physicians are rather slow TO comply
with the new law. There are in this city n niue
5000 doctors and surgeons. OF all schools ana
of both sexes OF these not more than l,ooo haVc
yet registered their names. This number lncindes
about forty women. The number registering daIiy
varies considerably On some days not more tuan
three or four present themselves, while on o'ie'S
there will be twenty or thirty. 49, :,
" How do the doctors regard the law r asked
the reporter of the registering clerk, e. A. Snyi IL
soceS 81 ooF c s
lated to protect their interests by driving OUT ana
keeping out of the profession the quacks ana irreg
for them to come down here, but they don't nina IL
much" .
lis there any noticeable increase in the daily
number of applicants as the time allotted draws
near its expiration " mn
"No. AT least very little. If any. The prospect
at present is that when October arrives not more
than one-half of the protested doctors III the city
will have registered"
"A great variety of institutions is represented
suppose !" ,...., , o,no..
every college IN the country and many out on tins
country, too The College of physicians and sur
geons and the Medical School or the University OF
the City OF New-YOlk are the two most largely re-?
resented, but graduates from many other medical
colleges registered here. OF all foreign cenn-
trles, Germany gives the largest representation
A cuTsOTy glance over the pages OF the register
showed many well-kn0wn names inscribed thereon.
Among them were the signatures OF Drs. Austin
Flint, ST, and jr;. Henry +. sayre, Valentine Mott,
Alfred &. Post Moses Jacoby, of the University OF
Berlin. and many other prominent PhysIcians.
Among those who have been practcina longest are
the following: DR.. James y. Smith who was gradu-
ated in 1925 DR.. Alfred &. Post, IN 1897 DE- T..
H. Dixon, IN 1882: DR.. Anstin Flint, ST.. in 1884
and Drs. Joseph Hilton, j. n. Keeler. and Alfred ;.
Several prominent members of the medical pro-
fession expressed themselves 20 the reporter as being
most heartily III favor OF the law; When October
! comes" sand One " we shall take the register aud
see who is 1t and who Is not on It, Then there
Will be general wedding out. Some Of the entries
won't pass muster Some fear hold bogus
diplomas. And, of course, great many viii not
register at all. The fun penalty of the law will be
exacted and will see If the profession cannot be
purified of of the quacks who BOW disgrace IT,.
L" | do most cordially approve of the measure"
sad another well-known physician OF nearly fifty
years standing. The public has htile conception
the damnablc OutfageS that are daily being perpe-
tratcd under the guisc of medical science Let me
tell you of something Six years ago | took this
house. Ii had been occupied, before me. Ivy popu-
lar quack. When | was having II cleared out and
fitted for my use came in. AS lie my work
men removing large set OF drawers, he remarked
| have been making $4,000 year from the sale
OF medicines from those drawers Now, tO show
you what the character OF those medicines was
When 81 went into the cellar | found
there eighty empty jars. They had
once been filed with phosphorlc acid
And that man, that sO-called doctor, had dealt
ont to his patients-ms vIctimsl To-day he Is ear
rying on the same deviIIsh trade. lie is rich
man, popular physician III good standing. But 1
don't believe lie has the first scrap of diploma
Perhaps he has. Lots of doctors have managed TO
gel regular aud legal diplomas, and then have run
Oft into every sort OF quackcry and chariatansin.
How to deal with such men ~ II difficult problem
But it must be done, somehow. Just the
other day young man came to Inc for
advice and treatment. He was the very picture of
health nOr his looks deceptive. If aimeut
he had. it was only a superabuudance OF vitality.
/ convinced him OF the fact that he was perfectly
WELL and sent him away happy. But before he
came to me he had been to the man told you Of
aud the miserable quack worked upon his fears
gave him some stuff that might have killed him
and did for the time lujure HIM, and eXOrted TlU0
from him for it, But that's only case. | could
talk about such cases all day. | only hope tins
registry system will have the effect of exposing all
such scoundres and brin gng them to Justice"