of the year in which appointed. In constituting the first board, however,

$4. Certificate of Appointment; Oath; Powers.-.

$5. Expenses.—.

$6. Officers; Meetings; Quorum; Committees.-.

$7. Admission to Examination. The regents shall admit to examination any candidate who pays a fee of twenty-five dollars and submits evidence, verified by oath, and satisfactory to the regents, that he

1. Is more than twenty-one years of age.

2. Is of good moral character.

3. Had prior to beginning the second year of medical study, the general education required preliminary to receiving the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine in this state.

4. Has studied medicine not less than four school years, including four satisfactory courses of at least seven months each, in four different calendar years in a medical school registered as maintaining at the time a standard satisfactory to the regents. New York medical schools and New York medical students shall not be discriminated against by the registration of any medical school out of the state whose minimum graduation is less than that fixed by statutes for New York Medical schools. The regents may, in their discretion, accept as the equivalent for any part of the third and fourth requirements, evidence of five or more years' reputable practice, provided that such substitution be specified in the license, and, as the equivalent of the first year of the fourth requirement, evidence of graduation from a registered college course, provided that such college course shall have included not less than the minimum requirements prescribed by the regents for such admission to advanced standing. The regents may also in their discretion admit conditionally to the examination in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, sanitation, and chemistry, applicants nineteen years of age certified as having studied medicine not less than two years, including two satisfactory courses of at least seven months each, in two different calendar years, in a medical school registered as maintaining at the same time a satis factory standard, provided that such applicants meet the second and third requirements.

5. Has either received the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine from some registered medical school, or a diploma or license conferring full right to practice medicine in some foreign country unless admitted conditionally to the examination as specified above, in which case all qualifications, including the full period of study, the medical degree and the final examinations in surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pathology, including bacteriology, and diagnosis must be met. The degree of bache lor or doctor of medicine shall not be conferred in this state before the candidate has filed with the institution conferring it the certificate of the regents that before beginning the first annual medical course counted toward the degree, unless matriculated conditionally as hereinafter specified, he had either graduated from a registered college or satisfactorily

completed a full course in a registered academy or high school; or had a preliminary education considered and accepted by the regents as fully equivalent; or held a regents' medical student certificate; or passed regents' examinations securing sixty academic counts, or their full equivalent, before beginning the first annual medical course counted toward the degree, unless admitted conditionally as hereinafter specified. A medical school may matriculate conditionally a student deficient in not more than one year's academic work or fifteen counts of the preliminary education requirement, provided the name and deficiency of each student so matriculated be filed at the regents' office within three months after matriculation, and that the deficiency be made up before the student begins the second annual medical course counted toward the degree.

6. Where the applicant be for a license to practice osteopathy, the applicant shall produce evidence that he has studied osteopathy not less than three years including three satisfactory courses of not less than nine months each in three different calendar years in a college of osteopathy maintaining at the time a standard satisfactory to the regents. After nineteen hundred and ten the applicant for a license to practice under this act shall produce evidence that he has studied not less than four years including four satisfactory courses of not less than seven months each in four different calendar years in a college maintaining at the time a standard satisfactory to the regents.

$8. Questions. The board shall submit to the regents, as required, lists of suitable questions for thorough examination in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, sanitation, chemistry, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pathology, including bacteriology, and diagnosis. From these lists the regents shall prepare question papers for all these subjects, which at any examination shall be the same for all the candidates, except that the examination may be divided as provided in section seven.

$9. Examinations and Reports.-Examinations for licenses shall be given in at least four convenient places in this state and at least four times annually, in accordance with the regents' rules, and shall be exclusively in writing and in English. Each examination shall be conducted by a regents' examiner who shall not be one of the medical examiners.

If a candidate fails on first examination, he may, after not less than six months' further study, have a second examination without fee. If the failure is from illness or other cause satisfactory to the regents they may waive the required six months' study.

$10. Licenses.-On receiving from the state board an official report that an applicant has successfully passed the examinations and is recommended for license, the regents shall issue to him a license to practice according to the qualifications of the applicant. Every license shall be issued by the university under seal and shall be signed by each acting medical examiner and by the officer of the university, who approved the credential which admitted the candidate to examination, and shall state

that the licensee has given satisfactory evidence of fitness as to age, character, preliminary and medical education and all other matters required by law, and that after full examination he has been found properly qualified to practice. Applicants examined and licensed by other state examining boards registered by the regents as maintaining standards not lower than those provided by this article and applicants who matriculated in a New York state medical school before June fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and who received the degree of doctor of medicine from a registered medical school before August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, may with out further examination, on payment of twenty-five dollars to the regents and on submitting such evidence as they may require, receive from them an indorsement of their licenses or diplomas conferring all rights and privileges of a regents' license issued after examination. The commis sioner of education may in its discretion on the approval of the board of regents indorse a license or diploma of a physician from another state, provided the applicant has met all the preliminary and professional qualifications required for earning a license on examination in this state, has been in reputable practice for a period of ten years, and has reached a position of conceded eminence and authority in his profession. If any person, whose registration is not legal because of some error, misunderstanding or unintentional ommission, shall submit satisfactory proof that he had all requirements prescribed by law at the time of his imperfect registration and was entitled to be legally registered, he may on unani mous recommendation of the state board of medical examiners receive from the regents under seal a certificate of the facts which may be registered by any county clerk and shall make valid the previous imperfect registration. Before any license is issued it shall be numbered and recorded in a book kept in the regents' office, and its number shall be noted in the license; and a photograph of the licensee filed with the records. This record shall be open to public inspection, and in all legal precedings shall have the same weight as evidence that is given to a record of conveyance of land.

$11. Registry; Revocation of License; Annulment of Registry.-Every license to practice medicine shall, before the licensee begins to practice thereunder, be registered in a book kept in the clerk's office of the county where such practice is to be carried on, with name, residence, place and date of birth, and source, number and date of his license to practice.

$12. Registry in Another County.—A practicing physician having registered a lawful authority to practice medicine in one county, and removing such practice or part thereof to another county, or regularly engaging in practice or opening an office in another county shall show or send by registered mail to the clerk of such other county, his certificate of registration. . .

$13. Certificate Presumptive Evidence; Unauthorized Registration and License Prohibited. . .

$14. Construction of this Article.-This article shall not be construed

to affect commissioned medical officers serving in the United States army, navy or marine hopital service, while so commissioned; or any one while actually serving without salary or professional fees on the resident medical staff of any legally incorporated hospital; or any legally registered dentist exclusively engaged in practicing dentistry; or any person or manufacturer who mechanically fits or sells lenses, artificial eyes, films, or other apparatus or appliances, or is engaged in the mechanical examination of the eyes, for the purpose of constructing or adjusting spectacles, eye glasses and lenses; or any lawfully qualified physician in other states or countries meeting legally registered physicians in this state in consultation; or any physician residing on a border of a neighboring state and duly licensed under the laws thereof to practice medicine therein, whose practice extends into this state, and who does not open an office or appoint a place to meet patients or receive calls within this state; or any physician duly registered in one county called to attend isolated cases in another county, but not residing or habitually practicing therein; or the furnishing of medical assistance in cases of emergency; or the domestic administration of family remedies; or the practice of chiropody; or the practice of the religious tenets of any church. This act shall be construed to repeat all articles or parts of articles authorizing confernment of any degree in medicine causa honoris or ad eundem or otherwise than on students duly grauduated after satisfactory completion of a preliminary medical course not less than required by this article as a condition of license. It is further provided that any person who shall be actively engaged in the practice of osteopathy in the state of New York on the date of the passage of this Act, and who shall present to the board of regents satisfactory evidence that he is a graduate in good standing of a regularly conducted school or college of osteopathy within the United States which at the time of his or her graduation required a course of study of two years or longer, including the subjects of anatomy, physiology, pathology, hygiene, chemistry, obstetrics, diagnosis and the theory and practice of osteopathy, with actual attendance of not less than twenty months, which facts shall be shown by his or her diploma and affidavit, shall upon application and payment of ten dollars be granted, without examination, a license to practice osteopathy, provided application for such license be made within six months after the passage of this act. A license to practice osteopathy shall not permit the holder thereof to administer drugs or perform surgery with the use of instruments. Licenses to practice osteopathy shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the word osteopath be included in such registration; and such license shall entitle the holder thereof to the use of the degree D. O., or doctor of osteopathy.

NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN NORTH CAROLINA. FROM THE CODE OF 1905.

SEC. 4492. Board of Examiners.-In order to the proper regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery, there shall be established a board of regularly graduated physicians, to be known by the title of The Board of Medical Examiners of the State of North Carolina, which shall consist of seven regular graduated physicians.

SEC. 4498. Applicants for License Examined.-It shall be the duty of the said board to examine all applicants who shall exhibit a diploma, or furnish satisfactory proof of graduation, from a medical college in good standing, requiring an attendance of not less than three years and supplying such facilities for clinical instruction as shall meet the approval of said board, for license to practice medicine or surgery, or any of the branches thereof, on the following branches of medical science: Anatomy, physiology, surgery, pathology, medical hygiene. chemistry, pharmacy, materia medica, therapeutics, obstetrics and the practice of medicine, and if on such examination they be found competent, to grant to each applicant a license or diploma, authorizing him to practice medicine and surgery, or any of the branches thereof. Five members of the board shall constitute a quorum and four of those present shall be agreed as to the qualifications of the applicant: Provided, that the requirement of three years' attendance at school shall not apply to those graduating prior to January 1, 1900; Provided further that license or other satisfactory evidence of standing as a legal practitioner in another state shall be accepted in lieu of a diploma and entitle to examination.

LAWS 1907. CHAP. 890.

(a) That the Board of Medical Examiners shall in their discretion issue a license to any applicant to practice medicine and surgery in this State without examination if said applicant exhibits a diploma or satisfactory proof of graduation from a medical college in good standing, requiring an attendance of not less than three years and a license issued to him to practice medicine and surgery by the Board of Medical Examiners of another State:

SEC. 4499. Temporary License.-To prevent delay and inconven ience, two members of the board of medical examiners may grant a