The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-03
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and surgeons, and to punish persons
violating the provisions thereof
\ l. Be it enacted by the Sennte and Cen
1 eral Assembly of the state of New Jersey,
/ That the governor shall appoint board
| of examiners, to be known as the
state board OF medical examiners; said
board shall consist of nine members; the
appointees shall be persons of recognized
professional ability and honor; the terms
Of Office of said board shall be three
years. or until their successors are ap-
pointed; provided however, that the
members of the board first appointed
shall be divided into three classes, each
class to consist of three persons; the tlrst
class shall hold Office under said appoint
ment for one year, the second for two
years and the third for three years from
the time of their appointment, and there
after each member OF said board shall be
appointed for a term of three years, and
provided further, thet said board shall
consist of five old school, three nomeo-
paths and one eclectic; it is further pro-
vided, that no member of said board shall
serve more than two terms in succession;
no member of any college or university
having a medical department. shall be
appointed to serve as a member of said
board
2. And be i6 enacted, That said board
of medical examiners shall elect presi-
dent. secretary and treasurer; 1t shan
have a common seal and the president
shall be empowered to administer
oaths in taking testimony upon any mat
ter pertaining to the duties of said board;
said board shall hold meetings for exam
nations at the capitol building of this
state the second Thursday of January,
April, July aud October of each year,
and at such other Times and places as the
board shall deem expedient; said board
shall keep an official record of all its
meetings, also an official register of all
applicants for examination for license
TO practice medicine and surgery in this
state; said register for license shall show
the name, age and last place of residence
of each candidate, the time he or she has
spent in medical study, in or out of med
ical school, and the names and locations
of all medical schools which have granted
said applicant any degree or certificate of
attendance upon lectures in medicine:
said register shall also show whether
such applicant was rejected or licensed
prima facie evidence of all matters
therein contained.
g. And be it enacted, That all persons
hereafter commencing the practice of
medicine or surgery, in any of its
branches in this state, shall apply 10 said
board of medical examiners for license
so TO do; applicants for examinations
shall be divided into three classes, to wit,
first. persons graduated from legally
charted medical school not less than tive
years before the date of application for a
license:second all other persons graduated
from legally chartered medical school;
and third, medical students taking a reg
uiar course of medical instruction: app
pifcants of the first class shall sub
nit to examination upon the following
named branches, to wit, matera medca
and therapeutics, obstetrics and gyne-
cology, practice of medicine, surgery and
surgical anatomy. those of the second and
third classes shall submit to examination
upon antony, physiology, chemistry,
pathology, materia medica and tnera-
peutics, histology hygiene, practice OF
medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gyne-
coiogy, diseases of the eye and ear, medi-
cal Jurisprudence and such other
branches as the board may deem advisa-
BILE: the questions for examination of APP
plie6nts OF the first and second classes
shall be the same in branches common to
both, said board shall not license appli-
cants of the second and third classes
of January first, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-two, until salts
factory proof issfurnished that the appli-
can't has studied medicine and surgery
three years, is of good moral character
and over LWenty-one years OF age; appli-
cants OF the third class. after they shall
have studied medicine aud surgery at
least two years. can be examined upon
the following named branches, to wit,
anatomy. physiology, chemistry, histol-
ogy, and pathology, and materia medica
and therapeutics; II said examination IS
satisfactory to all the members of said
board, it may issue certificate, that
the applicant has passed final examina.
tion in these branches, and such certifl
cate, if presented by the applicant when
he or she shall make applications for lie
ense to practice, shall be accepted by said
board in lien Of an examination in those
branches; all examinations shall be both
scientific and practical, but of sufficient
severity to test the candidates fitness to
practice medicine and surgery.
f. And be it enacted, That all examina-
tions shall be in writing; in all examina-
tions the questions and answers must be,
except in material medica and thera-
peuticS, such as can be answered in COM
mon by all schools of practice; and if the
applicant intends to practice homeopathy
or ecleticism the member or mem pers of
said board of those schools shall examine
said applicant in materia medica and
therapeutics; if said examination is salts
factory, the board shall issue license en-
fitting the applicant to practice medicine
in this state; the votes of all examiners
shall be by yes or no and written, with
their signatures. upon the backs of the
examination papers of each candidate for
the respective branches; a license shall
not issue in any case unless the applicant
passes an examination satisfactory TO all
the members of said board, said examin-
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secretary of said board and shall be prinIa
facie evidence of all matters therein con-
tanned: any applicant refused u license by
said board for failure on examination
may appeal from the decision of said
board to the appointing power thereof,
who may thereuDon appoint a medical
committee of review consisting of three
members. one from each school of med
icne, who shall examine the eXamina-
tion papers of the said applicant, and from
them determine whether license should
issue, and their decision shall be final; if
said commission by an unanimous vote
reverse the determination of the board
the board shall thereupon issue a license
to the applicants the expense of said APP
peal shah be born by the applicant: all
licenses shall be signed by the president
and secretary OF said board, and shall be
attested by the seal thereof; the fee for
examination shall be fifteen dollars for
each applicant of the first and second
classes, and twenty dollars for each APP
plicant of the third class; it shall be
paid to the treasurer of the board and ap.
piled towards defraying the expenses
thereof.
5. And be it enacted, That the board
may, by a unanimous vote, refuse to
grant, or may revoke license for the
following causes, to wit, chronic and per-
sistent inebuety, the practice OF criminal
abortion. conviction Of crime involving
moral turpitude or for publicly advertis-
ing special ability to treat or cure diseases
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