ditional fee; the applicant shall sign his or her name opposite a number in a book kept for that purpose by the secretary, and shall mark his or her examination paper with said number and shall be known to the members of said board only by said number until his or her papers have been examined and marked; applicants examined and licensed by or who are to have been members of state examining and licensing boards of other states, upon the payment of fifty dollars to the treasurer of said board, and on filing with the secretary of said board a copy of his or her license or certificate, certified by the affidavit of the president and secretary of such board, showing also that the standard of requirements of said board at the time of said license or certificate was issued was substantially the same as that required by the said board, and of his or her affidavit as to the personality thereof, may be granted a license by said board without further examination thereby.

5. And be it enacted, That all examinations shall be written in the English language, and the questions and answers shall be, except in materia medica and therapeutics, such as can be answered in common by all schools of practice; if the applicant intends to practice homeopathy or eclecticism, the members of said board of those schools respectively shall examine said applicant in the materia medica and therapeutics of the school in which such applicant intends to practice; the examinations shall be in the following subjects, namely, materia medica and therapeutics; obstetrics and gynecology; practice of medicine, including diseases of the skin, nose and throat; surgery, including surgical anatomy and diseases of the eye, ear and genito-urinary organs; anatomy; physiology; chemistry; histology; pathology; bacteriology; hygiene; medical jurisprudence, and in such other subjects as the board may decide; all examinations shall be both scientific and practical, and of sufficient severity to test the candidate's fitness to practice medicine and surgery; if said examination is satisfactory, the board shall issue a license, entitling the applicant to practice medicine and surgery in this state; the votes of all examiners shall be yes or no, and written with their signatures upon the backs of the examination papers of each candidate; said application and examination papers shall be deposited in the state library, in the capitol building, and they shall be prima facie evidence of all matters therein contained; all licenses shall be signed by the president and secretary of the board, and shall be attested by the seal thereof.

6. And be it enacted, That the board may refuse to grant or may revoke a license for the following causes, to-wit: chronic and persistant inebriety; the practice of criminal abortion; conviction of the crime involving moral turpitude or for publicly advertising special ability to treat or cure chronic

and incurable diseases; or where any person shall present to this board any diploma, license or certificate that shall have been illegally obtained, or that shall have been signed or issued unlawfully or under fradulent representations; in complaints for violating the provisions of this section, the accused person shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint, and given a hearing before said board in person or by attorney; and any person, after such refusal or revocation of license, who shall attempt or continue the practice of medicine, shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter prescribed.

7. And be it enacted, That the person so receiving said license shall file the same, or a certified copy thereof, with the clerk of the county in which he or she resides, and said clerk shall file said certificate or copy thereof and enter a memorandum thereof, giving the date of said license, with the name of the person to whom the same is issued, and the date of said filing, in a book to be provided by this board and to be kept for that purpose, and for which registry the said county clerk shall be entitled to demand and receive from each person registering the sum of one dollar; in case the person so licensed shall move into another county of this state, he or she shall procure from the said clerk a certified copy of such registration, and then file the same with the clerk of the county to which he or she shall remove, and the said clerk shall file and enter the same with like effect as if the same was an original license, and for which registry the said clerk shall be entitled to demand and receive the sum of one dollar; and each county clerk in the counties of this state shall, upon the last day of November of each year, furnish to the secretary of said board a list of all the certificates of this board filed in his office during the previous year, and upon notice to him of the change of location or death of the person so licensed, or of the revocation of said license, said county clerk shall enter at the appropriate place in the records so kept by him, a memorandum of said fact, and said memoranda shall be furnished to the secretary of this board in the annual report above required.

8. And be it enacted, That any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine or surgery within the meaning of this act, who shall use the words or letters "Dr." "Doctor," "Professor," "M.D." or "M.B." in connection with his or her name, or any other title intending to imply or designate him or her as a practitioner of medicine or surgery in any of its branches, and who in connection with such title or titles or without the use of such titles, shall prescribe, direct, recommend, advise, apply, give or sell, for the use of any person or persons, any drug or medicne or other agency or application for the treatment, cure or relief of any bodily injury, infirmity or disease; and it is further provided, that the use of any one of the

aforementioned titles or the exposure of a sign, circular, advertisement or any other device or information, indicating thereby the occupation of the person or persons, shall be considered prima facie evidence; and it is further provided, that the provisions of this act shall apply to all persons professing and attempting to cure diseases by means of the so-called systems of "faithcurism," "mind-healing," "laying-on-of-hands" and other similar systems.

9. And be it enacted, That this act shall not apply to the commissioned surgeons of the United States army, navý or marine hospital service while so commissioned, or to lawfully qualified physicians or surgeons residing in other states meeting registered physicians and surgeons of this state in consultation, or to any legally qualified physician or surgeon of another state taking charge of the practice of a legally qualified physician or surgeon of this state temporarily during the latter's absence therefrom and upon the written requests to said board therefor, or to any physician or surgeon of another state, and duly authorized under the laws thereof, to practice medicine and surgery therein; provided, that such practitioner shall not open an office or a place for the practice of his profession within the borders of this state; or to anyone while actually serving as a member of the resident medical staff of any legally incorporated charitable or municipal hospital or asylum, or to any legally qualified and registered dentist exclusively engaged in practicing the art of dentistry, or to any person claiming the right to practice medicine and surgery in this state who has been practicing therein since before the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety; provided, said right or title was obtained upon a duly registered diploma, of which the holder and applicant was the lawful possessor, issued by a legally chartered medical institution which, in the opinion of said board, was in good standing at the time said diploma was issued; or to any person resident of this state who has been continuously engaged in giving treatment by electricity herein during the past fourteen years; provided, that said person has graduated from a legally incorporated electro-therapeutic school in good standing, or to any legally licensed and registered pharmacist of this state actually engaged in the practice of his profession, but this exception shall not be extended so as to give said licensed pharmacist the right and authority to carry on the business of a dispensary, unless said dispensary shall be in charge of a legally licensed and registered physician and surgeon of this state; or to any legally licensed and registered veterinary physician, surgeon or dentist of this state engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery or dentistry in any of its branches; or to any professional nurse, masseur or electrician, operating in each particular case under the

specific direction of a regularly licensed physician or surgeon; or to any person or persons giving aid, assistance or relief in emergency or accident cases pending the arrival of a regularly licensed physician and surgeon.

10. And be it enacted, That any person hereafter commencing or continuing the practice of medicine and surgery in any of its branches in this state without first having obtained and filed the license herein provided for or contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days or by both fine and imprisonment, and for each subsequent offense the punishment shall be double that of the preceding one; and it shall be the duty of the respective district attorneys of the counties of this state to prosecute violations of the provisions of this act.

11. And be it enacted, That the expenses of said board and of the examination shall be paid from the license fees above provided for, and if any surplus remain, the same may be distributed among the members of said board as a compensation for their services as members, but otherwise they shall receive no compensation whatever.

12. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, general or special, now existing, not in accordance with the provisions of this act, or inconsistent therewith, are hereby repealed.

Approved May 22, 1894.

Amended as to sections 3, 4 and 9 and approved April 8, 1903.

The following paragraphs are taken from the synopsis of the requirements for examination and license to practice medicine and surgery in the State of New Jersey:

1. Name, address, place and date of birth, showing that candidate is over 21 years of age.

2. Character: Certificates of moral character from not less than two physicians in good standing, one of whom must be a resident of New Jersey.

3. Academic Requirements: Candidates for examination must present a certificate of academic education, or a certified copy of diploma, to attach to and file permanently with their application, showing that their academic education meets at least one of the following requirements of the statute:

(A) A certificate or diploma issued after four years of study either in a normal, manual training or high school of the first grade in this state, or in a legally constituted academy, seminary or institute of equal grade.

(B) A student's certificate of examination for admission

to the freshman class of a reputable literary college, attested by the seal of the institution attended, or before a notary.

(c) A certificate from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of New Jersey that the candidate's academic education is considered and accepted by him as fully equivalent to either of the above requirements.

Candidates failing to present one of the above certificates must pass an examination before the State or County Board of Examiners for Teachers, application for which must be made to the state superintendent of public instruction, Trenton, N. J., at least ten days before the examination.

State teachers' examinations are held at Trenton on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday of June and December. County teachers' examinations are held in each county on the first Friday and Saturday of February, May and October.

A New York Regents' Medical Student's Certificate of 48 counts will be accepted as the equivalent of a high school

course.

Any regular state teacher's certificate (not including certificates to teach music, drawing, manual training, physical training, or other special subjects), or Latin in connection with a first grade county certificate, will be accepted as evidence of preliminary academic education.

A certificate of graduation from any registered gymnasium in Germany, Austria or Russia, or a certificate of a completed course of five years in a registered Italian gymnasium and of three years in a lyceum, will be accepted as meeting the requirements.

Academic certificates accepted as credentials for admission to the State Medical Examination will be filed permanently in the State Library at Trenton.

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5. Application for Examination: tion should apply to the secretary of this board for a blank form of application which must be filled out in accordance with the printed instructions on the blank; bear the seal of the medical institution from which the applicant was graduated, and be returned to the secretary for approval and filing, with a certificate of academic education and a certified check, signed by or payable to the order of the candidate, or a postal money order, for $25, the regular examination fee, at least ten days before the date of the examination. addition to the above requirements, graduates of foreign institutions must file, with their applications, a certified copy, with translation, of their academic and medical diplomas made by and under the seal of their respective consuls-general, showing that the candidate possesses the full right to practice medicine in all its branches in the country in which the diploma was issued, to which the candidate must make affidavit that he is the person named therein.

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