Year: 1875

LAST DAYS SESSION.


REPORTS OF REGULAR COMMITTEES


Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year
ADDRESS FROM DIR. SINS, OF NEW YORK
THE BANQUET.


ADJOURNMENT, &C., &C., &C.


Tie, Virginia State Medical Society re.
sumed its session in the ball of the House OF
Delegates yesterday morning at 1920, Presi.
dent GleaVes in the chair.
MEDICAL REFoRMs-sTArE BOARD OF HEALTH.


Fellow G. w. semple, NJ. D., chairman of
the special committee appointed ut the last
meeting of the Society to report on Legisla-
tive Medical Reform, submitted a report
and bill, which the committee urge the
fellows of the Society to press upon the
members of the next General Assembly.


The bill provides that in order to the pro-
per regulation Of the practice of medicine and
surgery there shall be established Board of
Medical Examiners, to consist of seven men,
bers, two of whom shall he appointed by the
Governor, one by the faculty of University
of Virginia, one by the faculty Of the Vir-
ginia Medical College, and three by the Medi-
cal Society OF Virginia, who shall examine on
the usual branches taught in the medical
schools and colleges all applicants for a certi.
fcate of qualification to practice medicine
and surgery; and, If on examination. they be
found competent, shall grant to such appli-
cants a certificate Of qualification provided
that not less than four members be eed op
the qualification OF an applicant; that not less
than five members shall constitute quorum
of the Board; and provided that such appli-
cant shall have received diploma
from some chartered or Incorporated
medical school or college recognized by the
Medical Society of Virginia, shall have at
tanned the age Of twenty-one years, and can
show evidence of good moral character; and
said Board shall be entitled to demand and
receive OF every applicant the sum of twenty
dollars.


Section 2. That the Board of Medical Ex-
aminers shall be appointed in the manner
aforesaid once every - years, and shall as





ally-on the first Monday in May and on the
first Monday in Nevem ber-for the purpose
of conducting examinations; and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to elect
all such officers, and to frame all such bylaws
as may be necessary to carry this law into
effect and in case Of the death, removal,
resignation, or refusal to act Of any member
of said Board, said Board, or a quorum of
LnIl ha thou
cred to fill vacancies so created.


Section 3. That the Board of Medical EX-
aminers shall grant on application, without
examination, to all practitioners of medicine
and surgery licensed to practice at the time
of the passage of this act, who shall have
received q diploma from any chartered
or incorporated medical school or college
recognized by the Medical Society of Vir-
ginia, and showing evidence of good moral
character, certificate of qualification to
practice medicine and surgery; and to all
such licensed practitioners as, not having re.
ceiyed diploma as aforesaid, shall present
the certificate of three practitioners of medi-
cine and surgery, duly licensed as hereinaf.
ter provided, of the county, town, or city
of their residence, or in case of there not
being so many resident practitioners in the
county, town, or city of their residence
then OF the same number from continuou;
counties, certifying that such applicants have
practiced medicine and surgery crsditably
and successfully for the fifteen last preceding
years, and are of good moral character; and
the Board of Medical Examiners shall be
entitled to demand and receive fee of two
dollars from every such applicant as may ap'
ply under this section.


Section 4. That the Board of Medical Ex
aminers shall cause to be entered in book
kept for that purpose the names of each and
every person to whom they shall grant
q certificate of qualification to practice
medicine and surgery, and the time of grant
ing the same, together with the names of the
members OF the Board present at the examl'
nations, and shall publish them in some
newspaper published in the city of Rich
mond within thirty days after granting the
same. The Board shall also keep regular
record Of all their proceedings.


Section :. That ali persons who shall re-
ceive a certificate of qualification to practice
medicine and surgery from the Board O.
Medical Examiners shall have the same en-
tered of record in the clerks office of the
county, town, or city of their residence.
and the assessor Of the revenue shall ISSUE
license to practice medicine and surgery tc
such persons as shall have had such certih
cate so recorded, and to none others: ant
they only shall be entitled to practice mel
cine and surgery in this State; and they shat
pay such license fee and tax as may be nov
or shall be hereafter required by law.
Section 6. That the employment OF any
person licensed as aforesaid shall have th'
same legal effect between the employer ano
the party employed as the written CONTRACT
now provided by law for waiver Of the bene
| fits of homestead exemption now has in caS'
| of other contracts, and shall confer lien OF
| the property of the employer for any Juds
ment obtained for payment Of services OF th'
employed.


Section 7. That all bonds, notes, and as
sumptions to pay made TO pay 10 any per
son or persons not licensed in the name
provided in this act, the consideration where
Of shall be services rendered as physician o
surgeon in prescribing for the cure OF dis
ease, shall be, and they are herby declared II
| be, utterly void and Of no effect.


Section S. That if any person or person:
| who have not been licensed according to tn
| provisions of this act shall presume to prac
tice medicine or surgery, or any brancl
| thereof, dentistry excepted, or in any man
ner prescribe for the cure of disease for fe


or reward, he or they shall be liable to b
| indicted therefor, and, on conviction thereof
shall be fined the sum of FIVE hundred do
lars for each offence one half 10 enure t
the benefit of the informer and one half t
the treasury of the Commonwealth.


Section g. That all fees received by tn
| Board of Medical Examiners under the pro
visions of this act shall constitute fund fol
the payment of the expenses OF the Board.
The report of the committee was adopted