Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-23
STATE HOUSE.
Ask Revocation Of Physi-
clans License Hearing,
Quest Of Golden Eagle by Gu.
rdtor James Of Museum Fails.
In Effort TO Make Next Dairy Ex
hIbIt the Best Ever.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor and
Council, Tuesday, July 20, 1918, 10
A, NJ

A hearing was held Tuesday morn
ing. in the Senate chamber OH the Pc
| tition to the Board Of Medical Exami-
rers for the revocation of the license
of DR.. A. j. Fuller, practising physician
On Swans Island. The petition was
| signed by the citizens of Swans Island
and both sides appeared with an ar
ray of witnesses. intending to fight the
case with testimony. had it been Of
! tered, which would have proven moth
| ing short of sensational AS it was,
he board ruled that only the matter
! Of the illegal giving of the license to
| DR.. Fuller be heard, and the ruling of
! the Board of Medical Examiners of
Vermont be accepted by the Maine
| board in the matter of the charges of
unprofessional charges and immortality.
All through the arguments of counsel
| in the case, the talk was replete with
| hints of sensational charges to come,
and threats on the part of the prose-
cution were even made to bring other
| charges on the ground of neglect of
| patients, And we can prove it too,
| declared Arthur S. Lttlefeld. who
| claimed he appeared for the people OF
| Swans Island.
| The matter came down, however, to
| the illegal granting to DR.. Fuller of a
license to practice in the State. and
it was fought out by counsel ON these
lines, not witness being introduced,
though the seats around the sides of
the chamber were filled with witnesses
of 10th sides.
Save for the touching now and then
upon the subject of inadequacy, Mr..
Littlefield confined himself to arguing
that the Board did not act as a board
and had no right to act individually,
or over the phone and could not grant
n license. which is proceeding he
claimed. to DIR. Fuller without the call
ing of meeting.
The case in Vermont might we'll be
told as follows:
The physician in the case before the
Vermont Medical Examination Board
is DR.. A.. J. Fuller new practicing in
Swans Island, Me. who was graduated
from the University of Vermont, Col
lese of Medicine. in the class OF 1867,
and afterwards practiced at Warren,
Vt. The charges against him are unpro-
fessional conduct anti immo raity. The
petitioners in the case are Drs. +. j.
Hickey of Warren and w. J. Howard
of Waitsfield. Both sides had many wit
nesses from Maine and Vermont and
much evidence was introduced.
Dr. Fuller has. for the PAST two years,
been praeticing in Swans Island. Me-
where he went to take the practice Of
Or. l. B. Gage. another Vermont alum
nus. who was i'll and unable to attend
to- his patients. He was at the hearing
and claimed Fuller was guilty of vio-
lating his contract with him.
This formed the basis CT the charge
of unprofessional conduct. Before going
ing to Swans Island he practiced in
Warren. and it was while here he was
charged with immortality.
Fuller made application to the Maine
Board for reciprocal license. which
was followed by these petitions for
revocation. Fuller was exonerated of
the charges by the Vermont board.
which rendered its decision July s, And
the hearing. Tuesday, was the result
of the petition to revoke this license.
Charles r. Smalley of Rockland, rep
resented DR.. Fuller. The matter of
the reciprocal recommendations enter
versy.
MIR. Littlefield said it was not mat
ter to be settled by the two physicians
and that it was "A matter whether the
pebble of Swans Island wanted this
man in their homes, and among them.
to doctor their families. He claimed
that DIR. Fuller was not competent,
and had been refused admittance to
several medical societies, and that DIR.
Fish of Vermont medical society, who
admitted Dr. Fuller, was not president
of the Society. He claimed that DR..
Fuller had gone to county i'll YER
mont where he was not known. to be
admitted to such. He claimed that Or.
Fuller was not wanted in Swan S ISL
and. He was not a physician In good
standing and submitted letter from
the Dean of the school from which DR..
Fuller graduated virtually saying as
much. Aftidavits were submitted to
both sides which claimed that Fuller
was and was not a physician in good
standing. and told of his inability to
enter into medical societies.
Mr.. Littlefield was inclined to take
issue with the board, and for the most
part of his argument expressed ms
disapproval OF such a ruling that would
not allow him to submit the immortality
case to them. However. the chairman
remained firm and refused to allow
any discussion other than that Whlcn
pertained to the Illegal granting OF the
license.
Mr. Littleneld, seeing his arguments
could not move the board from their
stand, confined his argument to prov
ing that the board had acted illegally
He claimed that the license had been
,xran afl1ll1, obtained and that the