The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-08
STATE BOARD Of
MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Hold Session and Examine
Twenty-SiX New Florida
Physicians.


amincrs for the State of Florida he'll
: sessions in this city last Tuesday an
Wednesday, when twenty-six appli
cants for license to practice IN Flori
ad were examined
The Board of Examiners is com
posed of the following well-knowl
Florida physicians: DR.. Geo. B. GLOW
cr Of Monticello, president; DR.. E. W
Warren of Palatka, secretary, an;
Drs. Jas. D. Love of Jacksonville, w
s. Granting of Miami, A. R. Bond o
Tampa, T. A. Neal of Sanford anc
T. H. Stokes of Pensacola. All mem
bers of the board were present will
the exception of DR.. Stokes.
Under the law ali applicants for {
license must have a diploma from 6
legally chartered medical college. The
examination covers the following sub
jects; Anatomy, physiology, surgery
and gynecology, obstetrics, chemistry,
materia medica and therapeutics.
1t requires several days for the
members of the board to examine the
papers after adjournment, as all ex-
aminations are in writing. Each
member of the board acts as examiner
for some one of the subjects. That
of DR.. Warren relates to chemistry.
Of the twenty-six applicants exam
ined, twenty-one were white, and five
were colored. Some of the applicants
are of physicians coming to Florida
after several years of practice in 9TH
er states. One, DR.. E. B. Carpathios
Of Tarpon Springs, is a Greek and is
a graduate of the National Universi-
ty of Greece; another, DIR. Nicolo Are
ma, coming from New York to Florida,
is an Italian and a graduate of the
University of Naples, Italy, another,
DR.. Rafael T. Ortega of Tampa, is
Cuban and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Havana. These constitute
the only foreigners to apply for IL
censes.
The five negroes to apply are all
graduates of Meharry Medical Col
lege, a colored college in North Caro-
lima.
The following is a complete list of
the applicants:
E. B. Carpathios, Tarpon Springs;
Rafael T. Ortega, Tampa; |. K.
Hicks, Jacksonville; J. w. Miller,
Tampa; w. O. Shepard, Titusville; B,
H. Palmer. Tampa: Thos. M. Kane,
Crescent City; H. c. Russell, Nichols,
N. Y: L. w. Glatzau, DeLand; Ed
ward P. Brewer, Norwich. Conn: w.
]. Blackshear, Dothan, Ala; c. I.
Wheatley, st. Cloud, Fla; K. G. Og-
lesby, Barlow: T. J. Kennedy, Edison,
Ga; W. P. Bonar, Moundville, West
Va; Nicolo Arena, New York: F. VIM
Ferris, Portland, Me-; E. T. Kege!,
Iowa City Iowa; Grant Marchant
Palmetto, Fla: A. M. c. Jobson, Mich
OILS. Fla; N. T. Counts, Cocoa, Fla.
! The colored applicants were: Leon
J. Reid East Palatka; S. R. Coleman,
Pensacola; C. H. Gibson, Tampa; Geo.
w. johnson, Jacksonville and A. G.
Reese, Youkon, Fla.
The papers of the Grecian appli-
cant were all written in Greek, and
DR.. Bond of Tampa took them with
him that he might have them inter-
preted by friend familiar with mod
crn Greek.
The next semi-annual examination
of the board will be held, probably in
this city, next June.
DR.. Warren is the senior member
of the present board, having been ap-
pointed in the summer of 1909 and
reappointed in 1913. DIR. Glover is
next in seniority, having originally
been appointed in the fall of 1909, and
reappointed. All the members terms
will expire in June next.
DR.. Warren has been secretary of
the board since the death of DR.. J.
D. Fernandez of Jacksonville, some
three years ago. Especially since
succeeding to the secretaryship, has
DR.. Warren been especially valuable
to the board in that he has system
atized the work-really organized it
and instituted many important fea-
lures having for their object the ele-
walton of the medical profession. DR..
Warren is not politician; he is lust
a conscientious physician whose mind
is centered on the work of his pro-