The Portland daily press., 1883-02-20
no PRRvENT QuAoKERY.
Provisions of the Bill to Regulate the
Practice of Medicine and Surgery.

Practice of Medicine and Surgery.
The following is the bill now before the
legislature to regulate the practice OF medicine
and surgery
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION
OF ALL PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
reSentdtfUes in Legislature assembled, as fol-
lows:
SECTION l. The county commissioners of
each county within this State shall provide
suitable books for registration of all practi-
tioners OF medicine and surgery or any of the
branches OF medicine or surgery, qualified by
the provisions of this act to practice the same
in this State, to be known as the medical reg
lister of the county, and it shall be the duty Of
the clerk of the supreme judicial court of
each county to keep and upon application
make use of the same for the registration of
all practitioners of medicine and surgery or
any OF the branches thereof, residing or So
Journing within the county, and qualified by
the provisions of this act to practice the same,
and said register shall be open to public in
Spection.
SECT. 2. Any person who shall practice
medicine or surgery or any of the branches of
medicine or surgery within this State for gaio,
or who shall accept any fee recompense as
practitioner of medicine and surgery or any
OF the branches of medicine or surgery, direct
ly or indirectly, shall have received the degree
OF doctor OF medicine, or be graduate of a
legally chartered medical school, university or
medical society authorized by law to confer
the degree OF doctor of medicine except as
provided for in sections four and seven of this
act, and shall be at least twenty-one years of
age and of good moral character; and each and
every such person before entering on the prac-
tice OF medicine and surgery or any of the
branches OF medicine or surgery shall furnish
and present to the clerk of the supreme iudie-
ial court, wherein he or she resides or sojourns,
his or her medical diploma, including any in
dorsements thereon, also true copy of
the medical college or insti ution that
conferred his or her degree of doctor of medi-
cine, that such degree has been so conferred.
and the date thereof, which certificate shall
nave peen signed by the proper recording Off
Ger OF such medical college or institution, and
such person shall make affidavit before the
clerk OF the supreme judicial court that the di-
ploma, together with the copy or certificate
herein described, are genuine and were law
fully granted him or her; thereupon the clerk
of said Supreme Judicial court shall enter in
the register his or her name in full, age and
place of nativity, place of residence and the
name of the medical college or institution that
conferred the degree of doctor of medicine
upon him or her ard the date when conferred,
and in like manner any other degree or degrees
conferred upon him or her if desired, to all of
which such person shall make affidavit before
theclerk of the Supreme Judicial court, and said
clerk shall place the copy of the diploma or
certificate of degree of doctor of medicine SO
presented, on file in his office for public in
spection.
SECT. 8. Any person having received the
degree of doctor of medicine as prescribed in
section two of this act, whose diploma shall
have been lost or destroyed, shall before enter
ing upon the practice of medicine or surgery
or any OF the branches thereof make affidavit
to tho fact of such loss to the clerk of the Su-
preme judicial court of the county where he
or she resides, and except in the matter of pre-
senting original diploma shall conform to the
provisions of section two of this act, and the
clerk of the Supreme Judicial court shall
enter in the register his or her name, age ma
tivity, residence, place and date of graduation
as described In section two of this act aud
shall place his or her certified copy of diploma
or certificate of doctor of medicine on file in
his office for public inspection.
SECT. f. Any person who has been in the
continuous practice of medicine or surgery in
this State, as his or her exclusive vocation
since June first one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, without having received the de-
gree OF doctor of medicine shall be allowed to
continue such practice, but as a condition
thereto shall be required to appear before the
clerk of the Supreme Judicial court Of the
county where he or she resides and present to
him written statement of the time he or she
has been in the continuous practice of medi-
cine or surgery in this State, as his or her ex-
elusive vocation, which time shall not be less
than thirteen years, and shall make oath or
affirmation to the same before said clerk of the
Supreme Judicial court, who shall then enter
in the register his or her name age, nativity,
residence, time of continuous practice without
the degree of doctor of medicine, and shall
place his or her certified statement on file in
his office for public inspection.
Sec. 8. Every practitioner who shall be adj
mltted to registration under The provisions of
this act, shall pay to the clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court who makes the registration 81,
which shall be in full for registration, and said
clerk shall give a receipt for the same, and
shall, if requested indorse upon the practtion-
er's diploma the fact, place and date of regis
tration over bis official signature.
SEC. 6. Any practitioner of medicine and
srugery or any of the branches of medicine or
surgery. or any person who shall present to
any clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court di
ploma on certificate of graduation in medi-
cine, which has been obtained fraudulently, or
In any way unlawfully. or which is in whole
OF in part forgery, or shall knowingly or will
fully make affidavit to any false statements To
be registered, or shall practice medicine or sur-
gerry or any branches of the same for gain or rec
ompense, without conforming to the provisions
OF this act, or shall otherwise violate or neglect
10 comply with its provisions, shall be deemed
guilty OF misdemeanor, and on conviction
tnereot shall be punished for each and every
offense by fine of not less than one hundred
dollars. one.half to be paid to the prosecutor
ana the other half 10 the county, or by impris-
onment In the county Jail for term OF not less
tnan three months or more than one year, or
Doth, or either at the discretion of the court.
SEC 4 Nothing in this act shall oe SO con-
structed as to prevent any physician or surgeon
legally qualified to practice his or ner proies-
sion in the State in which he or she resides,
from practicing medicine or surgery in this
State but any person who shall open an office
or appoint any place within the State whore
he or she shall meet patients Oh receive calls
for medical or surgical treatment, shall be
deemed sojourner, and shall conform to the
provisions of this act; nor shall anything in
this act Vppy to the practice of dentistry or to
the practice Of medicine and surgery by medi-
cal officers of the United States military or
naval service in the discharge of their official
duties within this State.
SECT. s. All acts or parts of acts inconsis-
tent with this act are hereby repealed.
SECT. 9. This act snail take effect on the
first day OF June, one thousand eight hundred