The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-16
MEDICAL BOARDS RULE
THE LINES TIGHTENED ABOUT THE
OsTEOPATHs OF THE STATE.
Action Taken to Protect Citizens
from practitioners Not Properly
Reconsideration.

The State Board of Medical Registration
and Examination, at a meeting held at
the Grand Hotel last night, adopted a
resolution which is IN conformity with the
amendments to the medical law passed by
the last General Assembly. 1t requires all
applicants for registration to practice oste-
opathy in the State. and the colleges from
which they procured their diplomas. to
comply with the schedules of minimum re-
q~uirements in force at the time of the ap-
p~lication except in so far as pertains TO
materia medica. The resolution is as fol-
lows:
whereas. BY the amendments of 1901 to
the medical act the State Board of Medical
Registration and Examination may grant
limited certificates which will authorize the
proper clerk to issue a license to practice
osteopathy only. and whereas it is provided
by the law that such certificates shall be
issued on the same terms and conditions
as others, except that the applicant there
for shall not be required TO pass an ex-
animation in materia medica, nor shall the
college from which he presents a diploma
be required TO conform 10 the stanaaro
fixed by said board as to instructions In
materia medica, but such college shall so
conform in all other branches of instruc-
tion, therefore,
Resolved, That all applicants for regis
tration to practice osteopathy in the state
of Indiana and the colleges from which
they procured their diplomas must comply
with the schedules or minimum require
ments in force at the time of application
except in so far as pertains to materia
medical"
Since the passage of the last amendments
to the medical law the State Board of
Medical Registration and Examination has
exerted itself to obtain the status OF the
various o~steopathic colleges OF the country
and TO that end resolved itself into a COM
mittee of investigation. The o~steopathic
colleges of the various States were either
visited or inquired about, and as a result
the board has found that many of them
from which osteopathists now practicing in
the State have obtained diplomas do not
nearly approach the standard required by
the board. One member of the board said
last night that il might be said that some
of the osteopathic colleges investigated by
the committee virtually had no existence
at all. As the amendment to the medical
law passed by the last Legislature eX-
empted from registration TO practice oste-
opathy all those who on March II, 1901. were
residents of the State and possessed of
diplomas from oSteOpathic colleges In the
United States, and as many OF these d.
plomas were obtained from colleges which
have been aScertafned to have virtually
no standard, the board last night adopted
the following resolution, with the purpose
of protecting the o~steopaths holding di-
plomas from reputable colleges and of
wedding out those holding diplomas from
colleges not up TO the standard as fixed
by the board:
.Inasmuch as the law regulating the
RIGS in Indiana was. in 1901, so amended
as to exempt from examination applicants
for registration TO practice O~steOpathy who
were on March II, 1901. residents of this
State and possessed of diplomas from any
osteopathic college in the United States,
therefore. in order TO establish what con-
stitutes such college,
Resolved. That the diplomas of such
applicants must have been issued by an
institution possessing equipment and a cur
riculum equal TO that fixed by the Assoc
ciated Colleges of O~steopathy, as set forth
by its constitution in 1895"