The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-01
FULL TEXT or THE BILL As
PASSED BY WASHINGTON
STATE SENATE.
All Persons Holding Diplomas Must
First Pass Examination Before
State Medical Board.

The following lis the provisions OF the
bill passed by the state senate reg
ulating the practice of osteopathy in
the state of Washington:
Section l. Any person holding a
diploma from a legally incorporated
school Of osteopathy recognized as
of good standing by the American Os-
teopathic association, and wherein the
course of study shall include instruc-
ton in the following branches, towit:
Anatomy. physiology, chemistry, his
tology, pathology. obstetrics, surgery,
diseases of women and children, dis
eases of the eye and ear, bacteriology,
diseases of the nervous system, medi-
cal Jurisprudence and the theory and
practice of osteopathy, shall upon
presentation of said diploma to the
state board of medical examiners and
satisfying such board that he is the
such board an examination on the
branches herein named Except upon
the theory and practice of osteopathy,
until such time as there may be ap-
pointed an osteOpathic physician on
the board of medical eXaminers.) The
fee for said examination shall be ten
dollars $4,000, which shall accom-
pany the application, and the examin-
alton shall be conducted in the same
manner and at the same place and
on the same date that physicians are
examined, as prescribed by section
3013 of Ballinger's annotated codes
and statutes of Washington. The same
general average shall be required as
in cases of physicians. Upon passing
a satisfactory examination as above
prescribed, the said board of medical
examiners shall issue a certificate to
the applicant therefor, signed by the
president and secretary of said board,
which certificate shall authorize the
holder thereof to practice osteopathy
In the state of Washington. This GER
cred with the proper officer of the
county in which the holder thereof re-
sides.
Sec. 2. The board of medical exam
liners may refuse to grant a certificate
to any person otherwise qualified, who
is not of good moral character. For
like cause or for incompetency, or
habitual intoxicatiOn or upon salts
factory evidence, by affidavit or other
wise, that a certificate had been
granted upon false and fraudulent
statements as to graduation or length
of practice. the said board may revoke
a certificate by an affirmative of at
least five (5) members of the board,
which members shall include one or
more members of the different schools
of medicine represented in said board
After the revocation of a certificate
the holder thereof shall not practice
osteopathy in this state.
Sec. 3. Any person who shall pre-
sent to the board of medical examiners
a fraudulent or false diploma, or one
of which he is not rfgnrrully the
owner, for the purpose of securing a
certificate as herein provided, or shall
file or attempt to file with the re-
corder of any court in this state, the
certificate of another as his own, Oh
who shall falsely personate any one tc
whom a certificate has been granted
by such board, Or shall practice este
apathy in this state without havins
first obtained and filed for record tne
certificate herein required. or who
continues to practice osteopathy after
the revocation of his certificate Thereof
shall be fined not less than fifty dol
lars H5000) nor more than one hun.
dred dollars ($10O.O0) and costs o.
prosecution. and shall stand committed
to the county Jail until such fine i.
paid; and whoever shall file or at
tempt to file with the clerk of an,
county ii this state the certificate O
another with the name of party t,
whom it was granted or issued, erased
and the claimants name inserted. O
shall file or attempt to file with tn,
beard Of medical examiners any falls
or forged affidavits of identification,
shall be deemed guilty of forgery.
Sec. 4. Section 3012 of Ballinger'
annotated codes and statutes of Wash
ington is amended to read as follows
section s012: The governor Of thi
state shall appoint a board of exam
iners to be known as the state medica
examing board. consisting of te,
persons. nine of whom shall be Iearne,
and skillful in the practice and the
DRY of medicine and surgery, and on
of whom shall be learned and skil|e
N the theory and practice of osteop
atny, and who shall holt thar oe,,