Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada / prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the Board ; revised and corrected to March 1, 1884.

  • Illinois State Board of Health
Date:
1884
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Credit: Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada / prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the Board ; revised and corrected to March 1, 1884. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cate of such person the fact of such revocation, signing his name thereto, and shall file in his office said certificate of revocation. Each of said boards may, from time to time, adopt such rules as may be necessary to the orderly conduct of all the proceedings taken and had before it. It shall be the duty of the secretaries of the respective boards to notify the secretaries of all other boards provided for under this act, of all applicants to whom licenses may have been refused, together with the reasons of such refusal by such boards. [§ 10—Original Act] In all cases of refusal or revocation of a certificate, the applicant may appeal to the body appointing the board. [§ 9—Amendatory Act.] Should either of the said boards issue a certificate to any person whose application for a certificate has been previously rejected by another of the said boards within one year after the rejection of said application, then, in such case, the certificate issued as aforesaid to said rejected applicant shall be null and void and of no effect. [§ 8—Amendatory Act. Any person assuming to act as a member of a board of examiners, under this act, or under the act to which this act is supplemental and amendatory, and who shall sign or subscribe, or issue or cause to be issued, or seal or cause to be sealed, a certificate authorizing any person to practice medicine or surgery in this State, except the person so acting and doing be appointed by one of the societies mentioned in section two of this act, or be authorized so to do by a board of examiners appointed by one of the societies mentioned in section two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50), or by imprisonment in the county jail for . a period of not less than thirty days nor more than three hundred and sixty-five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. § 5—[Original Act.] All examinations of persons not graduates or licentiates shall be made directly by the board, and the certificates given by the boards shall authorize the possessor to practice medicine and surgery in the State of California; but no examination into the qualifications of persons not holding diplomas or licenses shall be made after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. After that date no certificates shall be granted by them, except to persons presenting diplomas or licenses from legally-chartered medical institutions in good standing. § 8—[Original Act.] Candidates for examination shall pay a fee of five dollars, in advance, which shall be returned to them if a certificate be refused. The fees received by the board shall be paid into the treasury of the medical society by which the board shall have been appointed, and the expenses and compensation of the board shall be subject to arrangement with the society. [§ 9—Original Act.] Examinations may be in whole or in part in writing, and shall be of an elementary and practical character, but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of a candidate as a practitioner. [§ 6—Original Act.] Every person holding a certificate from a board of examiners shall have it recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides, and the record shall be endorsed thereon. Any person removing to another county to practice, shall procure an indorsement to that effect on the cer- tificate from the county clerk, and shall record the certificate, in like manner, in the county to which he removes, and the holder of the certificate shall pay ■ to the county clerk the usual fees for making the record. [§ 7—Original Act] The county clerk shall keep, in a book provided for the purpose, a complete list of the certificates recorded by him, with the date of the