Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
Il is Considered at q Special Session Of the
Montana Medical Society Lately Com
vened In Observation-Disclosures of the
Meeting-Ney Members Admitted.

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sided over by DR.. Leavitt, President, DIR.
w. r. Billiard OF Helena, Secretary. Thu
on credentials announced the
following physicians as duly qualified Tor
membership, and they were elected by the
adoption OF the report:
Drs. Gum, Hammond, Howard and
Shultz OF Butte; DR.. j. q. Owings, Deer
Lodge; DIR. L. D. Pickman and DR.. Leas1n,
Dillon; DR.. Dickson, Granite; DR.. Buckley,
Missoula; Drs. Snyder and Lesser. Ana.
conda; DR.. G. M. Chambiiss, Helena; Drs. K.
M. Whitiord and F. NJ. Higgins, BozemaD;
DR.. N. Atkinson, Fort Benton; DIR. A. A,
Tozer, White Sulphur Springs; DR.. ID. ID.
Hansen, Townsend; DIR. G. w. King, Marys'
Vile; Drs. Lesser and Musser, Helena; Drs.J
B, Newman, Sun River, and L. ii. Pleas
ants, Helena.
DIR. T. J. Murray, chairman OF the judici.
airy committee, presented for the considera.
oil the meeting a bill to be introduced
at the present session of the Legislature,
entitled IAN Act to Establish q Territorial
Board of Examiners to Regulate the Prae.
tice OF Medicine in the Territory" OF the
provisions OF which the following are the
principal features:
The first section provides thatthe Cover.
nor, with the advice and consent oil the
Council, shall appoint seven learned, skilled
and capable physicians, who shall consti-
tute a medical board, not more than two
OF whom shall be from the same county.
The third section provides that every
person practicing medicine, surgery OF
in any OF their departments
within this Territory, shall do nc
only upon complying with the require
ments OF this act. Ii a graduate in
medicine such person shall present his OF
her diploma to the territorial board oI
medical examiners for verification as to its
g~enuineness. II the diploma is found gen.
uine and is issued by a medical school legally
organized and in good standing, whose
teachers are graduates OF a legally organ.
lied school, which facts the territorial
board shall determine, and il the person
presenting and claiming such diploma be
the person to whom the same was origin
ally granted, then the board shall issue ite
certificate to that effect; and such certi6'
cate shall be conclusive evidence as to the
right OF the lawful holder thereof to prac'
tise medicine, surgery and obstetrics
within this Territory; and any person
coming to the Territory may present his Oh
her diploma to any member OF the board
OF examiners, who may issue a certificate
good until the next regular meeting OF the
board. II not a graduate the person prac'
Using surgery, ETC., within this Territory,
unless he or she shall have been in contin'
uous practice for a period OF not less than
ten years, OF which he or she may present
to the board satisfactory evidence OF the
same in the form OF affidavits, shall appear
before said board and submit to such ex'
animation as SAID board may require.
The eighth section provides that the
board shall have power to revoke certif'
Gates for incompetency.
The tenth section provides that any per
son offending against any Of the provisions
OF the act, where a penalty is not herein
before provided shall be deemed guilty Of
q misdemeanor, and upon conviction there
OF in any court of competent jurisdiction,
shall q a fine OF not less than 500 MOI
more than $500, and stand committed
until paid; or by Imprisonment in the
county Jail for q period of not less than
thirty days.
Where no diploma is presented a fee Of
SIS will be charged for examinations. The
board will not be salaried by the Territory
but shall receive pay for it's services from
moneys collected as such fees. All moneys
left shall be turned over to the Territorial
treasurer for the benefit OF the school fund.
The act does not apply to army or marine
The eighth section was the only one upon
which there was any dissension, DR.. Cole oil
Helena being of the opinion that it gave a
class OF men an opportunity to
carry their case into the civil courts. This
raised a doubt of the constitutionality oil
the section, and Judge Knowles being pres
emit, was asked to give his opinion. He
held that any one dissatisfied with the
boards decision OF a case could bring it
before the courts, by mandamus proceed.
ings, and oblige the board to defend it's
course; and it then lay with the court to
decide whether the board had acted within
the scope of it's powers properly or had i'm
properly transcribed them, according to
which its action would be sustained or
overruled. The bill was then adopted in
it's entirety and will be in charge OF Drs.
who will present it to the Legis.
The society transacted no further bust
ness OF Importance and adjourned the same
day to meet in this city on the first We'd
during the fall meeting Of the West
Side Fair and Racing Association.
DR.. Murray was seen yesterday alter.
noon and was particular to impress upon
his visitor that the bill male no attempt
to discriminate in favor OF any one school
Of medicine over another, but that it was a
first and foremost for the protec-
ton Of the public from quacks.
DR.. Hammond said: This special
was called with a view
to settling on the terms OF
bill to regulate medical practice
in Montana. There is not a State
or Territory in the Union which has not a
medical practice act. and this one, prepar.
ed by DR.. Murray, chairman OF the judici-
ary committee, is simply a proper provi
sion for the protection of the public. We
the best reason to believe it safe to
pass. DIR. Cole Of Helena, being president
Of the Council, will do all in his power to
zee that it is placed properly before both
branches OF the Legislature. The regular
so-called, aud the homeopathic are
hearty accord as to the passage OF tie
act. As an example OF the desire OF the
to act in q thoroughly catho-
ic spirit, two Helena homeopathic, DR..
and DIR. Maria Dean, were invit-
I'd to be present and participate in the deli
Derations on the bill reported by DR..
and they fully concurred in it. In
all we went is to have the practice
to those regularly educated in a
school Of recognized standing. No school
,ets q corner on the rest. The object is t.
the public against unprincipled
luacks who make misleading statements to
the public and gull them in that was. The
tendency of all the colleges now is to raise
the standard OF their graduates. Those
which used to require q two-year course
low require three, and those who required
\ three-year course are making it four for
Montana, in fact, is about the
only place to which quacks can resort nov.
No honest man can afford to oppose this
bill. II he is straight goods this bill pro-
Sects him. no matter what school he be-
ongs to-"
A Helena Newspapers Enterprise.
In q proiesssd write-up by the Helena
Record a few days ago of the industries of
Butte, the pilgrim Of the capital city un.
1ertook to exemplify the several hrms en-
jagged in the dry goods business among the
rest OF the industries. Space OF various
was devoted to all OF them in
turn, large and small, excepting the house
Of J.R. Boyce. Jr, & Co, which was dis
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