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Queer Questions on Which a
Paterson Dentist Was Re-
jeeted by the State Ex-
aminePS.
Special to the Jersey citg Neaps.

TRENTON, Aug. Is, 1S94.-Justice Dixon
yesterday granted a rule to show cause why
a mandamus should not issue commanding
the State Board of Registration and Exam
nation in Dentistry of New Jersey to issue its
certificate to the complainant in the case,
George Andrew Ewell, emitting him to prac-
tice dentistry in this State The rule is re-
turnable on Wednesday, the seventh day of
November, at the State House.
The petition sets forth that Ewell is a gra-
duate of the Pennsylvania College of Dental
Surgery at Philadelphia. Before his admis-
sion to the Pennsylvania College, Ewell
practiced in the States Of Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire, and after his graduation
from said college he located in New York
State, and afterwards in Paterson, this
State.
The petition further sets out that imme-
diately after locating in Paterson he applied
at the clerks office of the county of Passa1c
for the registration of his diploma, but it
was refused. He then applied to the State
Board of Examination and Registration in
Dentistry of this State to allow him TO tile
his diploma and receive a certificate ana
license permitting him to practice his pro
fessioa in this State. His application was
accepted, ana upon payment OF $50 he was
licensed 80 practice until such order should
be Issued directing him to take an examlna-
ton to continue to practice. About The 10th
day of July last he presented himself for
such examination. Ewell was notified that
ne had not successfully passed the same and
must close his office at once.
The petition charges that the questions
~nropounded embraced questions altogether
irrelevant, improper, and having no connec-
t,oa with dental surgery, and not In accord
auce with tGs provisions OF IAN act to regu-
iate tho practice CT dentistry in the State of
New Jersey" approved April Z, 1850.
Il Lam IL H CASE.
The complainant further alleges that by
the supplement of the act of the Legislature,
entitled IAN act to regulate the practice Of
dentistry and protect the people against EN-
piricism in relation thereto in the State of
New Jersey" approved March ~, 1854, per
SONS desiring to lawfully engage in the prac-
tico of dentistry in the State of New Jersey
shall do so, provided such person shall have
graduated and received his diploma from the
faculty OF a reputable dental college char
tered under the authority of some one OF the
States of the United States, and within
one month after commencing such
practice shall register his name in the
cock kept for that purpose in. the Clerks
cHice Of the county In which he shall have
been engaged in the practice, and who shall
elereupon become a Hcentiate and duly reg
lstered to engage in suck practice. Tn Pc
tition also sets out a subsequent act of the
Legislature to regulate the practice OF den
Estry in this State, approved April Z. 1890,
sioes not appear to have been intended to
change the provision of The act of 1854, as to
the manner of the application of applicants
to practice within this State, only SO far as
appertains to such persons who have not
before been engaged in the practice else
where, and to these who are about to begin
the study of dental surgery. that by the
proper construction of the act OF Jhe Legis-
- - Lar N Inzza - ~ ] a
practicing and entitled to practice either
in this State or elsewhere upon present.
ment to said board shall register the diploma
issued to him by a reputable dental college,
and obtain from said board a certificate
authorizing and licensing such person to
practice, and that such person is not To-
nuired to present himself for examination to
the board.
The act of 1890 provides that every person
lawfully practicing. or entitled to practice
dentistry in this State at the time of the
passage of the act, shall apply to the State
board before the first day of January, 1891.
The seventh section of the act of 1890
provides "that it shall not be lawful for any
person not now by the laws Of this State
authorized, hereafter to practice dentistry
in this State save after examination n
license by the State Board"
SOME OF II QUESTIONS.
Among the questions TO which Mr.. Ewell
objected were the following
"What is the composition of air in its
exact quantitlesa
"How much organic matter is found in the
bone!
What quantity of oxygen is found in the
airs
Write a compound prescription for di-
gestion2
"What is the process of getting plaster
paris, where is it found and in what guam
tities?"
Also questions about refining, smelling
and washing of minerals, and others that
had no bearing upon the science of dentistry.