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

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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$Province, whose regular practice extends into any town, parish or county in New Brunswick, may register under the provisions of this act. § 45. Chapter 93 of the Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick, Physi- cians and Surgeons, is hereby repealed: Provided, nevertheless, that this act shall not apply to or be construed to extend to clairvoyant physicians practicing at the present time in this Province, or to midwives. [Schedule A, referred to in section 8, above, relates to the form in which the Medical Register shall be printed, and which is almost an exact counterpart of the form adopted in 1877 for the Official Register of the Illinois State Boabd or Health. [ Schedule B, referred to in section 9, above, provides a uniform standard of matriculation or preliminary examination, viz: Compulsory, English or French language, including grammar and composition, and writing and dictation; arith- metic, including vulgar and decimal fractions, and extraction of the square root; algebra, to the end of simple equations; geometry, first two books of Euclid; Latin, one book, translation and grammar. Optional, one of the following: History of England, with quotations in modern geography; French translation; German translation; one Greek book; natural philosophy, including elementary mechanics; hydrostatics and pneumatics; history of New Brunswick;history of the Dominion.] In April. 1882, the following sections, together with four others incorporated above in the proper places, were adopted as amendments to the original act. § 5. Each registered medical practitioner shall, if required by the council, pay to the registrar, or any person deputed by the registrar to receive it, such annual fee as may be determined by by-law of the council, not less than one dollar nor more than two dollars, toward the general expenses of the council, which fee shall be paid.on the first day of January in each year, and such fee shall be deemed to be a debt due by the registered medical practitioner, and recoverable, with costs of suit, in the name of the Council of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick, in any court of competent jurisdiction. § 6. Any oath or affidavit required to be taken under the said act, The New Brunswick Medical Act, 1881, or under this act, shall and may be taken and had by and before any justice of the peace, as well as before any person by law author- ized to take any oath or affidavit; and any affidavit heretofore made by any person under the provisions of the said act, before a justice of the peace, shall be deemed to have been duly and properly made and taken, and be as effectual as if the power to take such affidavit had been expressly given to a justice of the peace in and by the said act. Dr. W. F. Coleman (M. R. C. S., Eng.) writes that there are two hundred registered practitioners in New Brunswick, and probably fifty or seventy-five more qualified to register who have not done so. Unqualified persons continue to practice, and no action has yet been taken against them. By ' unqualified,' I mean those not qualified to register; but, in fact, all not registered are unqualified under the act. Nova Scotia, Province of. Population, 440,885. (Census of 1881.) [An act regulating the practice of medicine and surgery exists in$