Requisitions for graduation in the various medical colleges; and requisitions for license to practice physic and surgery, in the various states and territories of the Union.

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[1832]
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Credit: Requisitions for graduation in the various medical colleges; and requisitions for license to practice physic and surgery, in the various states and territories of the Union. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    find the applicant qualified, and also that he prove to their sat- isfaction that he has studied medicine and surgery under the direction of some regular bred practising physician for at least two years. If an applicant has studied and received a diplo- ma from any medical college, the boards are directed to grant a license without any examination. In case any one practises after the date of this act, (excepting such as are now practis- ing medicine and surgery within the state) without a license as above, he may be indicted, and if convicted fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not ex- ceeding the term of two months.—Professor Wagner, of Charleston. S. C. Alabama.—By a law passed December 22, 1823, no per- son shall be allowed to practise physic or surgery, or other branches thereof, or in any case to prescribe for the cure of dis- eases, for fee or reward, after the 1st of April, 1824, unless a license has been obtained as follows. Five Boards of Physi- cians are by this law established, to consist of three members each, and to be elected by joint vote of both houses of the gen- eral assembly. These boards (two members a quorum) shall meet annually to examine all applicants, and if upon such ex- - amination, they are found competent, shall grant licenses. A single member may examine an applicant during the interval, and grant permission to practise until the next annual meet- ing. This act is not to aftect those who have been in practice pre- vious to the passage of this act, if they apply to one of said boards, and have their names enrolled within nine months af- ter the passage of this act. No debts are recoverable by persons hot licensed as above, and a fine of five hundred dollars is imposed for the violation of any of the provisions of this act—provided however, that nothing in this act is to be so construed as to prevent persons from practising as Doctors of Medicine, who may have receiv- ed a diploma from any regularly constituted medical institution ' within the United States, and provided further, that such per-