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amination as aforesaid, without the payment of an additional fee, and if a certificate be again refused him, he may as often as he sees fit thereafter, on the payment of a fee of ten dollars, he examined as herein provided until he obtains such certificate. All other persons who shall be granted a license to practice medicine in this state under the provisions of section nine of this chapter shall each pay a fee of twenty-five dollars to the state board of health.1

Section 12 of chapter 150 of the code of 1906 has been repealed. 1 As amended by Law of 1907.

WISCONSIN

LAWS OF 1903, CHAPTER 426.

AN ACT relating to the state board of medical examiners, and to the registration and licensing of persons engaged in the practice of medicine, surgery, or osteopathy in the State of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.-The governor shall appoint a board of medical examiners to be known as the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners, consisting of eight members.

SECTION 2.-Said board shall annually, at its July meeting, elect from its members a president, secretary, and treasurer, and shall have a common seal. The president and secretary may administer oaths for the accomplishment of the objects of the board. Said board shall hold regular meetings on the second Tuesday in each January at Milwaukee, and the second Tuesday of each July at Madison, and such other meetings at such other times and places as it may from time to time determine. The board shall keep a record of all of its proceedings and also a register of all applicants for license, together with a record showing their ages, time spent in the study of medicine and the name and location of all institutions granting to such applicants, degrees or certificates of lectures in medicine, surgery or osteopathy. Said register shall also show whether such applicant was rejected or licensed, and said books and register shall be prima facie evidence of all the matters kept therein.

SECTION 3.-All persons commencing the practice of medicine, surgery, or osteopathy in any of their branches in this state, shall apply to said board at the time and place designated by said board, or at any regular meeting thereof for license so to practice, and shall present to said board a diploma from a reputable college of medicine and surgery or osteopathy. A college to be deemed reputable by this board shall require at least four courses of not less than seven months each, before graduation, no two of such courses to be taken within any one twelve months, and that shall require for admission thereto a preliminary education equivalent to that required for entrance to the junior class of an accredited high school in this state, including a one year's course in Latin, and that shall after the year 1906 require for admission to such school a preliminary education equivalent to graduation from an accredited high school of this state, and shall submit to an examination in the various branches in medicine and surgery usually taught in reputable medical colleges, or if the applicant be an osteopath he or she shall present a diploma from a regularly conducted college of osteopathy

maintaining a standard in all respects equal to that hereby imposed on medical colleges as to preliminary education, said college after 1904 to give three courses of eight months each no two courses to be given in any one twelve months, and after the year 1909 such college shall give four courses of seven months each, as hereinbefore provided for medical colleges and shall pass the regular examination of such board in anatomy, histology, physiology, obstetrics, gynecology, pathology, urinalysis, chemistry, toxicology, dietetics, physical and general diagnosis, hygiene, and theory and practice of osteopathy. The examination in Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Practice shall be conducted by members of the board representing the school of practice which the applicant claims or intends to follow. After examination as herein before provided, the board shall, if it find the applicant qualified, grant a license to said applicant to practice medicine and surgery in all their branches in this state, or a license to practice osteopathy therein, which license can only be granted by the consent of not less than six members of said board, and which, after the payment of fees, as hereinafter provided, shall be signed by the president and secretary thereof, and attested by the seal of the board. Osteopaths when so licensed, shall have the same rights and privileges and be subject to the same laws and regulations as practitioner of medicine and surgery, but shall not have the right to give or prescribe · drugs or to perform surgical operations. The fee for examination shall be fixed by the board, but shall not exceed $15.00 in each case, with $5.00 additional for the license, if issued. Such fee or fees shall be paid by the applicant to the treasurer of the board and may be applied toward defraying any proper and reasonable expenses of the board; provided, however, that any student who is exempted as a matriculant of any medical college of this state under chapter 306 of the laws of 1901, whose name. is now on file with the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners, shall on the presentation of a diploma from any Wisconsin college, and on the payment of the fees specified in this act, and having satisfied said board that he or she is a person of good moral character, be licensed to practice without further examination by such board, provided that said college maintains its standard herein required.

Every person practicing medicine or surgery in the state of Wisconsin, who at the time and publication of this act, has not received a license from said board, and who shall after such passage and publication present a diploma from a reputable medical college and give satisfactory evidence of having been a reputable practitioner of medicine and surgery in the state of Wisconsin continuously since the first day of July, 1897, shall be granted a license without examination upon the payment of a fee not exceeding $5.00, as determined by said board. Any person applying for such license shall if he or she be possessed of a certificate of registration issued under and according to the provisions of chapter 87 of the laws of 1899, present such certificate to said board with the diploma and application of such license, and surrender said certificate on the issuance of said license, the registration fee paid for same shall

be deducted from the last named fee. Any practitioner of medicine or osteopathy holding a certificate from any other state board imposing requirements equal to those established by the board provided for herein may on presentation of the same with a diploma from a reputable medical or osteopathic college, be admitted to practice within this state without an examination, at the discretion of the board, on the payment of the fee fixed by the board, not exceeding the sum of $25.00.

SECTION 4.

The provisions of this act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons of the United States army, public health and marine hospital service, or to physicians or surgeons of other states or countries in actual consultation with resident physicians of this state.

And provided further, that any practitioner of medicine or surgery, holding a license from the state board of medicial examiners of any adjoining state, dated since January 1, 1901, shall on presentation of the same within one year from the taking effect of this act, accompanied by a certificate from the secretary of the state board of medical examiners of the state issuing the license that such applicant is a reputable practitioner of medicine and surgery in this state without an examination, at the discretion of the board on payment of the fee.

SECTION 5.-Every person hereafter practicing medicine, surgery or osteopathy in this state shall be required to have the license herein provided for, or heretofore issued by the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners, or a certificate of registration issued pursuant to the provisions of chapter 87 of the laws of 1899, and any person having or hereafter receiving a license according to the provisions of this act, or having such certificate of registration, shall record the same with the county clerk of any county in which said person shall practice and pay to said clerk or clerks a fee of fifty (50) cents each for recording the same, and said clerk shall enter a memorandum thereof, giving the date of said license or certificate, the name of the person to whom it was issued, school of practice chosen, and the date of such recording in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose. Any such person who shall fail to record his or her license or registration certificate, as herein provided, shall not exercise any of the rights or privileges conferred by such license or certificates.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN ASSEMBLY. SUB. For No. 353 A.

A BILL Empowering and requiring the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners to refuse to grant licenses or certificates of registration to persons guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct and empowering the courts to revoke and annul any license or certificate issued to any person guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct, or fraud or perjury in connection with obtaining such license or certificate or through error.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.-It is hereby made the duty of the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners to refuse to license or grant a certificate of registration to any person guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct. The circuit courts of this state are hereby vested with jurisdiction and power to revoke and annul any license or certificate of registration which has been heretofore or which may be hereafter issued to any person to practice medicine or surgery or osteopathy in this state, who is guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct, or who has procured such license or certificate of registration by fraud or perjury, or where the same was obtained through error. Upon a verified complaint in writing being made by any person, to the district attorney of any county, charging any person holding such license or certificate. with having, in said county, been guilty of any immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct, as defined in this act, or with having procured such certificate or license by fraud or perjury, or through error, said district attorney shall commence and prosecute an action in the circuit court of said county, against the person so complained against, to revoke and annul such license or certificate of such person. Such action shall be commenced and prosecuted as a civil action in the name of the State of Wisconsin as plaintiff, and against such person complained against as defendant, and the rules of pleading, evidence and practice in civil actions in the Circuit Court shall be applicable thereto, and either party may appeal from the circuit court to the supreme court as in other civil actions. Either party in said action may demand a jury trial, and the defendant shall have the right to be represented by counsel and the court may permit counsel to assist the district attorney in the prosecution of such action. The costs of such prosecution shall be paid by the county in which said action is brought. If, upon the trial of such action, the court finds, or the jury returns a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, judgment shall be rendered revoking and annulling such license and certificate of the defendant, and the clerk of the circuit court shall forthwith cause a certified copy of such judgment to be sent to the Secretary of the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners to be filed for record in the office of said Secretary. Any person whose license or certificate has been revoked under the provisions of this act, who shall thereafter practice, or offer or attempt to practice medicine, surgery or osteopathy in this state shall be punished as provided in Chapter 426 of the Laws of 1903. No person shall be excused or privileged from testifying fully under oath or producing evidence documentary or otherwise, in any action, proceeding or examination brought under the provisions of this act; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which such person may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except for perjury omitted in giving such testimony. If the court before which the trial is had shall determine that the com

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