Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17

practice, may be examined by the board,
II OF satisfactory moral character, and u
recommended as worthy by physicians in
good standing. A person refused a license
may be re-eXamined at regular meeting
of the board within one year Of the time
OF such refusal, without an additional Zee.
Sec. 3. Section 1865 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: 4.
Section 1865. The examination shall
be wholly or in part in writing, in the
English language, and shall be OF practl-
Cal character, sufficiently strict to test the
qualifications of the applicant. 1t shall
embrace the general subjects of anatomy,
physiology, chemistry, pathology, pac-
surgery, obstetrics, gynecOlOgy, mater1a
medica, therapeutics and legal medicine.
Each applicant shall pass general average
OF seventy-tive per cent to entitle nm to
license: provided, however, that repUt bic
practitioners may be allowed one per cent
for each year of practice, but such allow
ance shall not exceed ten per cent. tx
aminatiCnS in materia medica shall be
conducted by members of the board repre-
Senting the same school as the applicant.
SEC. 3. Section 1857 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
Section 1857. Said board shall, without
examination, issue license to reputable
physician or surgeon who personally APP
pears and presents a certified copy OF
certificate of registration or license
issued to him in state whose require
mentS for registration are deemed by said
board as equivalent to those OF this state,
provided that such state accOrdS a like
privilege to holders of licenses granted
under the laws of this state. The fee for
such license shall be fifty dollars:
SEC. 4. Section 1868 of the PUBLIC
Statutes is hereby amended SO as to read
Section 1868 The standard of re-
quirements for admission to practice in this
state, under the preceding section, shall
ACADEMIC: Preliminary requirements to
be high school education or its equivalent,
such as would admit the student to
recognized university The standards OF
such secondary schools shall be determined
by agreement between the educational
department of the state in which the ap-
plicant received such education and the
state superintendent of education.
MEDICAL: -Four courses of lectures OF nine
hundred hours each, in four different calen-
dar years prior to graduation from medl-
cal college approved by said board Prac-
titioners graduated prior to nineteen nun
dred and one are exempt from this re
Quirement.'
MORAL: Applicant shall present quail
fcations as to moral character and pro-
fesSional standing from two reputable
physicians in the county in which he re-
sides, and from the town clerk OF his place
of residence
Elk MINING: The examination in writ
ing shall have embraced twelve subjects OF
ninety questions, viz. anatomy, phySlol-
ogy, chemistry, pathology, bacteriology,
hygiene, practice of medicine, surgery,
obstetrics, gynecology, materia medica,
therapeutics and legal medicine. The
general average must have been at least
seventy-five per cent, and no license shall
be recognized when lower rating has been
obtained.
SEC 5. Section 1911 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 1911. A person who advertises
or holds himself out to the public as ply
sician or surgeon, or who assumes the title
or uses the words or letters, DR., " Doc
tor" Professor" IN. D." or IN. B.,
in connection with his name, or any other
title intending to imply or designate him
self as practitioner of medicine or surgery
in any of its branches, and in connection
with such title or titles, shall prescribe,
direct, recommend or advise, give or sell
for the use of any person, any drug, medl-
cine or other agency or application for
the treatment, cure or relief of any bodily
injury, infir1nity or disease, or who follows
the occupation of treating disease by any
system or method, shall be deemed ply
sician or practitioner of medicine or surg
cry, for the purposes of this chapter. The
provisions of this chapter shall apply to
persons processing and attempting to cure
diseases by means of faith cure, mind
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