this state, may be registered by this board and have a certificate issued to him, signed by the chairman and secretary, upon complying with the following requirements, to-wit: He shall present to the secretary of this board an application (the blank form for which will be furnished by the secretary upon request therefor) giving: 1. Name, postoffice address

and date. 2. Place and date of birth. 3 Present residence. 4. Proposed residence. 5. Source and amount of preliminary or academic education with degrees held. 6. Source, character and dates of medical education and graduation. 7. A certificate signed by the president, secretary or dean of the college or school granting the diploma, giving a brief history of his connection with the college or school, and bearing its seal. 8. The location and period of medical practice. 9. The date of examination and licensing by the attesting board. 10. A certified copy of the certificate or license bearing the seal of the board. 11. An affidavit of the secretary of the board stating the facts of issue of certificate or license after a written examination in not less than seven branches, naming each, with its rating by the board, and the general average of all, which must not be less than 75 per cent. 12. An affidavit of the president or chairman of the board affirming the secretary's affidavit. 13. An affidavit of the president or secretary of some state or local medical society that the applicant is at present in good professional standing. 14. An affidavit of the applicant that he (or she) is the person named in the certificate and that all the statements in the application are true.

The application when completed shall be sent to the secretary of the board with a fee of twenty-five dollars enclosed; and if found satisfactory and the state granting the original license will reciprocate by accepting the certificate of this board under a similar application, the chairman and secretary will forthwith forward the certificate of the board and admit the applicant to registration with the same privileges as if examined by this board.

The fees of the chairman and secretary for furnishing the same or similar evidence for a licensee of this board to register in another state shall be five dollars.

Reciprocity with New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan, only, so far.

Fee for examination, $10. Regular meetings of the board are held in March, July and November of each year and such additional meetings at such times and places as it may determine. Secretary board of registration of medicine, Dr. A. K. P. Meserve, Portland.

MARYLAND.

Medical Practice Act: Chapter 612 of the Laws of Mary

land of 1902 repeals the old, and enacts a practically new, law. The two separate boards of medical examiners are retained—one representing the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, and one representing the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society. No member of any medical college or university, who passes on the qualifications of graduates of any medical school, is eligible to serve as a member of either board. Each of the examining boards will prepare a schedule of written examination on anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, surgery, practice of medicine, materia medica, therapeutics, obstetrics and pathology and the same standard of excellence shall be required from all candidates. In the departments of therapeutics and practice, the question shall be in harmony with the tenets of the school selected by the candidate; the standard of requirements therein to be established by each board for itself. The examination must be fundamental in character. Hereafter a person desiring to practice medicine in Maryland must make a written application for license to the president of the board he may elect, accompanied by evidence as to good moral character, etc.; that he has obtained a competent common school education, and has either received a diploma conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine from some legally incorporated college in the United States or a diploma or license conferring the full rights to practice all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign country; said diploma, if from a college in the United States, must have been conferred by a legally incorporated college requiring a four years' standard of education as defined by the American Medical College Association or the Intercollegiate Committee of the American Institute of Homeopathy, respectively; provided, that this requirement shall not apply to any physician who shall, prior to the passage of this act, have practiced outside of this state for at least three years, and who shall have been duly registered or licensed in the place where he has so practiced; provided, further, that two courses of medical lectures, both of which shall be either begun or completed within the same calendar year, shall not satisfy the above requirements; provided, also, that in the case of students who at the time of the passage of this act shall be in their second year in a medical college, a three years' course of study, or attendance on three courses of lectures delivered in different years, shall satisfy said requirements. Proof of the qualification of applicants, as above, shall, if required, be made by affidavits at the time of the making of said application and payment of fee as provided. When the applicant shall have passed an examination satisfactory to the board, the president thereof shall grant to such applicant a license to practice. If the president of either board of medical ex

aminers shall have refused any application, either for want of the qualifications necessary to entitle such applicant to an examination, as hereinbefore provided, or for want of proficiency of such applicant on being subjected to an examination, then the president of neither of said boards shall entertain or pass on a subsequent application from said applicant until after the expiration of six months from the rejection of said previous application. The respective boards are authorized to license, without examination, applicants who present proper certificates of proficiency and professional standing at the time of application, issued by boards of medical examiners of the District of Columbia and of other states, the requirements of which are of as high a standard as those governing the boards of medical examiners of Maryland, provided such boards of such states or districts grant the same proof of qualifications required of other applicants by this section. Medical students at the end of their second year of study, who have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of the college which they have attended, completed the studies of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry and materia medica in said college, shall, on application, be examined in such studies by the state licensing board, the result of said examination to be considered as part of the final examination, the full regular fee to be paid at this time, no part thereof to be returned, but placed to their credit for the remainder of the examination yet to be taken. Medical students who have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of the college which they have attended, completed a full four-year course of studies and lectures, but who have not yet received their diplomas, shall, on application, be examined in the branches enumerated in Section 42 by the state licensing board, the final certificate and license of the said board being withheld until the diploma of the proper medical college, with the candidate's name inscribed, be produced to the secretary of the board. Diplomas presented by graduates of foreign colleges shall be accepted if a course of four years' study has been required by said foreign college before issuing such diploma. Any physician who may change his residence from the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland, or who while living in the District of Columbia shall desire to practice medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland shall, on application, be entitled to a license, without fee and without examination; provided, that the application be properly endorsed at the time it is presented by the examining board of the District of Columbia certifying to the proficiency and professional standing of the applicant; and provided, further, that the examining board of the District of Columbia shall, under the laws thereof, grant like and equal privileges to licensed physicians of the State of Maryland. The examina

tion fee is twenty dollars. Any person receiving a license shall file the same at once with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which he or she may reside, or with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, if said person shall reside therein. In case of a permanent removal of residence to another county or to Baltimore, the license, or a certified copy thereof, shall at once be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county or city. Either board may, by a vote of five members, revoke any license which it has issued, and may cause the name of any physician licensed by said board to be removed from the register of the licentiates of the city or county where it may be recorded for any of the following causes: The use of fraud or deception in passing the examination, habitual drunkenness, criminal abortion, conviction of crime involving moral turpitude or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct. Before proceeding to revoke any such license, the person against whom complaint is made shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint and charges made against him, and shall be given an opportunity for a hearing before the board, in person or by attorney, and at such hearing testimony may be offered for and against the accused. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the meaning of this Act who shall operate on or prescribe for any ailment of another, or who shall append to his or her name the letters M.D., or prefix the word Doctor, or the abbreviation thereof, Dr., to his or her name, with the intent thereby to imply that he or she is a practitioner of medicine or surgery; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to gratuitous services, nor to any resident or assistant resident physicians or students at hospitals in the discharge of their hospital or dispensary duties, or in the office of physicians, or to any physician or surgeon from another state, territory or district in which he resides when in actual consultation with a legal practitioner of this state; or to commissioned surgeons of the United States army or navy or marine-hospital service, or to chiropodists, or to midwives, or to masseurs or other manual manipulators who use no other means; nor shall the provisions of this article apply to physicians or surgeons residing on the borders of a neighboring state, and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extends into the limits of this state; provided, that such practitioners shall not open an office or appoint places to meet their patients or receive calls within the limits of this state without complying with the provisions of this Act; provided, that the same privileges be accorded to licensed physicians of this state; provided, further, that nothing in this Act shall annul any of the Acts of the present dental law of the State of Maryland, nor

shall apply to any registered graduate of dental surgery now practicing in the said State of Maryland, with sign titles: Dentist, Surgeon Dentist, Dental Surgeon or Stomatologist. The Secretary of the (regular) board is Dr. J. M. P. Scott, Hagerstown.

MASSACHUSETTS.

[REVISED LAWS JANUARY 1, 1902.]

Section 1. There shall be a board of registration in medicine consisting of seven persons, residents of this commonwealth, who shall be graduates of a legally chartered medical college or university having the power to confer degrees in medicine, and who shall have been for ten years actively employed in the practice of their profession. No member of said board shall belong to the faculty of any medical college or university, and no more than three members thereof shall at one time be members of any one chartered state medical society. One member thereof shall annually in June be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for a term of seven years from the first day of July following.

Sec. 2. Said board shall hold regular meetings on the second Tuesday of March, July and November in each year, and additional meetings at such times and places as it may determine. At the regular meeting in July, it shall organize by the choice of a chairman and secretary who shall hold their offices for the term of one year. The secretary shall give a bond to the treasurer and receiver general in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the governor and council, for the faithful performance of his official duties.

Sec. 3. Applications for registration shall be made upon blanks to be furnished by the board, and shall be signed and sworn to by the applicants. Each applicant for registration shall furnish satisfactory proof that he is twenty-one years of age or over and of good moral character and, upon payment of a fee of twenty dollars, shall be examined by said board. If he is found by four or more members thereof to be twentyone years of age or over, of good moral character and qualified, he shall be registered as a qualified physician and shall receive a certificate thereof signed by the chairman and secretary. An applicant who fails to pass an examination satisfactory to the board, and is therefore refused registration, shall be entitled within one year after such refusal to a reexamination at a meeting of the board called for the examination of applicants, without the payment of an additional fee; but two such re-examinations shall exhaust his privilege under his original application. Said board, after hearing, may