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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![issue and the name of the medical society represented by the board of examiners issuing them. If the certificate be based on a diploma or license, he shall record the name of the medical institution conferring it, and the date when conferred. The register of the county clerk shall be open to public inspection during business hours. [§ 5—Amendatory Act.] Any person shall be regarded as practicing medi- cine within the meaning of this act who shall profess publicly to be a physician or who shall habitually prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters M.D. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit gratuitous services in case of emergency. And this act and the act to which this act is supplemental and amendatory shall not apply to lawfully commissioned surgeons of the United States army and navy practicing their profession within the limits of this State. [§ 7—Amendatory Act.} Any person practicing medicine or surgery in this State, without first having procured a certificate to so practice from one of the boards 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 subject to the pen- alties provided in section thirteen of the act to which this act is amendatory and supplemental; but no person who holds a certificate from one of such boards of examiners, or who holds a certificate heretofore granted by the board of examiners heretofore existing by virtue of appointment by the California State Medical Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners, shall be compelled to procure a new certifi- cate; and all powers and privileges of said boards of examiners under the act to which this act is supplemental and amendatory, are hereby transferred to the boards of examiners created by this act. [§ 12—Original Act. § 6—Amendatory Act] Any itinerant vender who shall sell or offer for sale any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind intended for the treatment of disease or injury; or any person who shall, by writing or printing, or by any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat disease, injury or deformity by any medicine, drug or drugs, nostrum, manipula- tion, or other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars a month. Such license shall be collected as other licenses are. [§ 13—Original Act.] Any person practicing medicine or surgery in this State, without complying with the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), 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 imprison- ment, for each and every offense; and any person filing or attempting to file, as his own, the diploma or certificate of another, or a forged affidavit of identification, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to such fine and imprisonment as are made and provided by the statutes of this State for the crime of forgery. [Section 11 of the original act permitted students to 'prescribe under the supervision of preceptors; but this permission is rescinded by the amendatory act.] Dr. F. W. Hatch, Sacramento, Secretary California State Board of Health,, writes: Our medical law does not give entire satisfaction, * *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069748_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
