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plaint made to the district attorney was willful and malicious and without probable cause, it shall enter judgment against the person making such complaint for the costs of such action, and payment of the same may be enforced by execution against the body of such complainant as in tort actions.

SECTION 2. The words "immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct" as used in section one of this act are hereby declared to mean: First, procuring, aiding or abetting a criminal abortion; second, advertising, either in his own name or in the name of another person, firm association or corporation, in any newspaper, pamphlet or other written or printed paper or document, in any obscene manner or in a manner derogatory to good morals the curing of venereal diseases, the restoration of "lost manhood," or the advertising of any medicine or any means. whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated or the menses re-established, if suppressed, or being employed by or in the service of any person, firm, association or corporation so advertising; third, the obtaining of any fee on the assurance that a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured; fourth, willfully betraying a professional secret; fifth, indulging in the drug habit; sixth, conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude.

WYOMING

CHAPTER 45. HOUSE BILL No. 71. BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 5, Division one, Title XVI, Revised Statutes of 1899, relating to the State Board of Medical Examiners.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

APPOINTMENT OF BOARD.

SECTION 1.-The Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint three regularly licensed physicians of the State of Wyoming, who shall constitute the State Board of Medical Examiners, and who shall hold office for a term of four years. Any vacancy which may occur in said Board from any cause shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, and the physician so appointed shall hold his office until the expiration of the term.

DUTIES.

SECTION 3.-It shall be the duty of the said Board to pass upon the qualifications and determine the fitness of all persons who may desire to practice medicine, surgery, and obstetrics, or who may publicly profess in any manner to assume the responsibility of the care or treatment of disease, injury or deformity of human beings in the State.

REQUIREMENTS.

SECTION 4.-Every person wishing to practice medicine in any of its departments in this State shall possess the qualifications required by this Act. He shall be a graduate from a regularly chartered college of the system which he claims to practice, said college must be recognized by the State Board of Health, or the State Board of Medical Examiners of the State in which it is located. He shall give evidence of the fact that he is a person of good moral character and that he shall not be the victim of such habits as shall cause him to endanger the lives of those entrusted to his care. He shall present his diploma to the State Board of Medical Examiners for verification as to its genuineness, said certification shall consist in the affidavit of the holder of the diploma that he is the lawful possessor of the same and that he is the person therein named. Such affidavit may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths and the same shall be attested under the hand and seal of such officer. He shall appear before the State Board of Medical

Examiners in person at a time and place appointed and shall pass an examination sufficiently strict to test his qualifications as a practitioner. Said examination may be in whole or in part in writing. It shall be of an elementary and practical character, and shall be upon the following subjects: Anatomy, Physiolgy, Chemistry, and Toxicology, Pathology, Physical Diagnosis, Gyenecology, the Principles of Surgery, Obstetrics, Hygiene, and Bacteriology. He shall further be required to pass an examination in such branches as are necessary to complete the system of which he is a practitioner. If the applicant is a practitioner of any school or system not represented in the membership of the Board, the Board shall have authority to call a regularly licensed practitioner of that system to assist in the examination. The practitioner thus called shall receive a compensation of five dollars for each person examined. An average grade of seventy-five per cent in all branches of the examination shall be required provided, that the applicant shall not pass lower than sixty per cent in any one branch. Said examination shall be conducted by and under the supervision of the Secretary of the Board with such assistance from the other members as shall be agreed upon by them. Said examinations shall be held at stated periods to suit the convenience of the Board and applicants, provided, that not more than four examinations shall be held in any one year.

The President and Secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners shall issue certificates to all persons who successfully pass said examinations and such certificates, after being duly recorded as hereinafter provided, shall be deemed license to practice medicine in all branches in which the applicant has taken examination in this State. No application for license to practice medicine in this State shall be rejected because of adherence to a particular school of practice. All persons who are licensed practitioners in this State prior to the passage of this Act shall be exempt from its requirements.

APPLICATIONS-FEES.

SECTION 5.-The State Board of Medical Examiners shall receive through its Secretary, applications for certificates and examinations. A fee of twenty-five dollars shall accompany each application. Should the applicant fail to pass the examination, he may present himself at any time within a period of one year for another examination without the payment of an additional fee.

ADMISSION WITHOUT EXAMINATION.

SECTION 6.-Said Board may, in its discretion, accept and register, upon payment of the registration fee, and without examination of the applicant, any certificate which shall have been issued to him by the Medical Examining Board of the District of Columbia, or of any State or Territory of the United States; provided, however, that the legal requirements of such Medical Examining Board shall have been at the

time of issuing such certificate in no degree or particular less than those of Wyoming at the time when such certificate shall be presented for registration to the Board created by this act; and provided, further, that the provisions in this section contained shall be held to apply only to such of said Medical Examining Board as accept and register the certificates granted by this Board without examination by them of the ones holding such certificates.

EXAMINATION PAPERS.

SECTION 8.-The examination papers of applicants when placed in the hands of the Secretary shall become the property of the State and shall remain in the possession of the State Board of Medical Examiners and the questions and answers of any examinations together with the gradings thereon shall be subject to inspection at any time at the secretary's office.

CERTIFICATE TO BE RECORded.

SECTION 9.-Every person holding a certificate as having successfully passed an examination before said Board of Medical Examiners shall have the same recorded at the office of the County Clerk of the County in which he resides and the date and place of record shall be endorsed thereon. Any person moving to another county to practice shall procure a certificate to that effect from the County Clerk and the holder of the certificate shall pay to the County Clerk the usual fees for making the record.

APPLICATION OF THIS ACT.

SECTION 13.-Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit gratuitous service in case of emergency, and this Act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons of the United States Army, Navy or medical examiners of relief departments of railroad companies, while so employed or any lawfully qualified physicians residing in other States or Counties meeting registered physicians of this State in consultation, or any physician or surgeon residing upon the border of a neighboring State, and duly authorized under the Laws thereof to practice medicine and surgery therein, whose practice extends into the limits of this State. This Act shall apply to apothecaries and pharmacists who prescribe for the sick.

EXAMINATION.

SECTION 15.-The State Board of Medical Examiners shall examine all persons upon the theory and practice of obstetrics who profess to

practice obstetrics and midwifery, who do not have authority to practice under the provisions of this act, or holding such certificates as are prescribed by this section, Provided, that nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit persons from rendering services in cases of obstetrics or midwifery in cases of emergency.

ACTS INCONSISTENT.

SECTION 18.-All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 19. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1905.

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