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General Information.

Board of Registration of Medicine.

EXTRACTS FROM THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT.

SECTION 9. On and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, it shall be illegal for any person not duly registered by this board to practice medicine or surgery, or any branch thereof for gain or hire within this state. Whoever not being registered as aforesaid shall so practice or shall advertise or hold himself out to the public as a physician or surgeon in this state who appends to his name the letters "M.D.," or who uses the title of a doctor or physician, meaning thereby a doctor of medicine, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment n jail for three months, or both.

SECT. 10. (As amended March 22, 1901.) This act shall not apply to commissioned officers of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service, or to a physician or surgeon who is called from another state to treat a particular case and who does not otherwise practice in this state, nor to prohibit gratuitous service or the rendering of assistance in emergency cases, nor to midwives who lay no claim to the title of physician or doctor.

SECT. II. Neither shall this act apply to clairvoyants or to persons practicing hypnotism, magnetic healing, mind cure, massage, Christian Science, so called, or any other method of healing if no poisonous or dangerous drugs are employed nor surgical operations performed; provided, such persons do not violate any of the provisions of section nine of this act in relation to the use of "M. D.," or the title of doctor or physician.

SECT. 12. For the purposes of the appointment of said board and of registration of persons by it hereunder, this act shall take effect upon its passage and shall take full effect on the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Applicants for registration will be examined in writing, in the English language, on the general subjects of anatomy, physiology, pathology, materia medica, surgery, the principles and practice of medicine, and obstetrics, except as provided by the act of reciprocity as follows:

RULES ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION OF MEDICINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 275, ACTS OF 1901, RELATING TO RECIPROCITY OF REGISTRATION WITH OTHER STATES.

Any person who is eligible for examination before this board and who has been examined and registered or licensed by the examining board of any other state, which maintains a standard of education at least equal to that required in 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: I. Name, post office 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. IO. A certified copy of the certificate or license bearing the seal of the board. II. 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.

Acts Relating to the Standard of Medical Education Recognized.

RULE 8. All medical schools and colleges, legally chartered by the states in which they exist, and having the power given them by the state to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), and having an unchallenged reputation for honest teaching, and granting of diplomas, only after a proper time of study and an examination in all the branches with a rating averaging, at least, 75 per cent, shall be considered as " Reputable Schools or Colleges," and in good standing.

RULE 9. The minimum grade of preliminary education before admission to the study of medicine, which the board will approve, is a good English education, evidenced by a knowledge of English orthography and composition, mathematics, including algebra and plane geometry, geography, history, natural philosophy or physics and chemistry, with some laboratory work; and also the ability to read at sight common Latin prose. A college degree, a diploma from some Normal School, High School, or Academy, or a successful entrance examination to any recognized college will be accepted as evidence of the above. All others must pass an examination.

RULE IO. The standard of medical instruction which the board will approve is three years of medical study and three courses of lectures for those who graduate previous to 1902, and four years study and four courses of lectures after 1901. Five years of reputable practice before 1901 will be accepted in lieu of one year's study. Colleges or medical schools complying with these rules 9 and 10 will be approved by the board as far as preliminary education and medical instruction is concerned.

State Board of Health.

The state board of health shall have the general supervision of the interests of health and life of the citizens of the state. They shall study the vital statistics of the state, and endeavor to make intelligent and profitable use of the collected records of deaths and of sickness among the people; they shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease and especially of communicable diseases and epidemics, the causes of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, ingesta, habits, and circumstances on the health of the people; they shall investigate the causes of disease occuring among the stock and domestic animals in the state, and the methods of remedying the same; they shall gather such information in respect to all these matters as they may deem proper for diffusion among the people, they shall, when required or when they shall deem it best, advise officers of the government, or other boards within the state, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building; they shall from time to time examine and report upon works on the subject of hygiene for the use of the schools of the state; they shall have general oversight and direction of the enforcement of the statutes respecting the preservation of health; and they shall, in the month of January, make report of the legislature of their doings, investigations, and discoveries during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, with such suggestions as to legislative action as they may deem necessary.

SECT. 3. The board shall meet quarterly at the state capitol, and at such other places and times as they may deem expedient. A majority shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall choose annually one of their number to be their president, and may adopt rules and by-lays subject to the provisions of this act. They shall have authority to send the secretary, or a committee of the board, to any part of the state, when deemed necessary to conduct an investigation within the scope of their prescribed work. It shall be the duty of the health committee in each town and city in the state, at least once in each year, to report to the state board of health its proceedings and such other facts required, on blanks and in accordance with instructions received from said state board. It shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the state board of health.

SECT. 8. In order to afford to this board, better advantages for obtaining knowledge important to be incorporated with that collected through special investigations and from other sources, it shall be the duty of all officers of the state, the physicians of all incorporated companies, and the president or agent of any company chartered, organized, or transacting business under the laws of this state, as far as is practicable, to furnish to the state board of health any information bearing upon public health which may be requested by said board for the purpose of enabling it better to perform its duties of collecting and distributing useful knowledge on this subject.

SECT. 9. The secretary of the state board of health shall be the superintendent of vital statistics. Under the general direction of the secretary of state he shall collect these statistics and prepare and publish the report required by law relating to births, marriages and deaths. [Approved February 27, 1885.]

President, Charles D. Smith, M.D., Secretary, A. G. Young, M.D.

Bowdoin College Library.
Brunswick, Maine.

The Library of the Medical School containing 3,700 volumes has been combined with that of the college, which numbers over 80,000 volumes.

Both collections are under the same administration and are at the service of the medical students.

The more recently published medical works and current numbers of professional journals are kept in a separate room in the main library building for their especial use. It is not the policy of the school to furnish text books through its library, or to buy largely in medical literature; yet, by means of the catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the system of inter-library loans, the librarian is able to procure for use in serious investigation almost any book that may be desired.

Hospitals, Homes, and Institutions.

Maine General Hospital.

Western Promenade, Portland, Maine.

The hospital owes its existence to the concerted action of the State Medical Society, who appointed a committee, of which the late Dr. John T. Gilman was the chairman, to secure an act of incorporation for a State Hospital to be located in Portland and an appropriation sufficient to secure its foundation.

The act of incorporation was passed in February 1868, and by a subsequent enactment, in 1870, the state ceded to the Corporation on certain conditions, the lot of land, the site of the State Arsenal on Bramhall's Hill. By a grant from the City of Portland, the Corporation enlarged its limits, the property now embracing more than seven acres.

The hospital has accommodations for one hundred and forty-eight patients, this includes the ward beds and the private rooms.

A Nurses' Home has been built and occupied during the past year, also a new surgery which contains an operating amphitheatre with accommodations for medical students, a private operating room, and an accident operating room and pathological laboratory together with space for eye, ear, nose and throat departments.

The hospital has thirty-two endowed beds, not enough to meet the requirements as patients requiring free treatment are constantly turned away. A training school for nurses is connected. Patients may be visited between 2 and 4 each week day.

President, William L. Putnam; Secretary and Treasurer, Franklin R. Barrett. Consulting Staff: Charles E. Swan, M. D., Alonzo Garcelon, M.D., Alfred Mitchell, M. D., M. C. Wedgwood, M.D., Frederick H. Gerrish, M.D., Stephen H. Weeks, M.D., Israel T. Dana, M. D., Seth C. Gordon, M. D., Charles O. Hunt, M.D., Irving E. Kimball, M.D.

Attending Physicians and Surgeons: Augustus S. Thayer, M.D., Charles A. Ring, M. D., Addison S. Thayer, M.D., Edward J. McDonough, M.D., Alfred King, M.D., John F. Thompson, M.D., George H. Cummings, M.D., Henry H. Brock, M.D., Herbert F. Twitchell, M.D., William H. Bradford, M.D

Adjunct Surgeons: Arthur S. Gilson, M.D., William L. Cousins, M.D., Richard D. Small M.D., Alfred Mitchell, Jr., M.D.

Surgeons for the Eye and Ear, James A. Spalding, M.D., Willis B. Moulton, M.D.

Obstetrician, Stanley P. Warren, M.D.

Surgeon for Throat and Nose, Owen P. Smith, M.D.

Orthopedic Surgeon, E. G. Abbott, M.D.

Pathologist, Walter E. Tobie, M.D.

Superintendent, Charles D. Smith, M.D.

Central Maine General Hospital.
Lewiston, Maine.

Established in 1891. Nine hundred patients were treated during the year ending Oct.

I, 1902.

The endowment fund is small but the state appropriates $5,000 annually to the institution. Those who can afford to pay are expected to, though no one is refused who is unable to pay. The charges in the open wards are $7 a week and in private rooms from $2 to $5 a day. Accident cases are admitted at all hours, but other patients from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M., they should apply personally to the superintendent; those from a distance should send a physician's statement as to the nature and probable duration of their disease.

Friends of patients are admitted afternoons, except Sundays from 2 to 3, and evenings from 6 to 7.

A training school for nurses is connected with the hospital.

President, Seth M. Carter; Secretary, D. J. Callahan; Treasurer, L. J. Jordan.

Consulting Physicians and Surgeons: Stephen H. Weeks, M.D., Portland; E. M. Fuller, M.D., Bath; F. C. Thayer, M. D., Waterville; A. Mitchell, M.D., Brunswick; A. L. Hersey, M.D., Oxford; D. A .Robinson, M.D., Bangor; F. E. Sleeper, M.D., Sabattus; H. B. Palmer, M.D., Farmington; E. E. Holt, M.D., Portland; W. B. Moulton, M.D., Portland.

Attending Physicians: A. M. Peables, M.D., M. C. Wedgewood, M.D., J. W. Beede, M.D., W. B. Small, M.D., H. S. Sleeper, M.D., C. C. Peaslee, M.D., E. S. Cummings, M.D., E. H. Hill, M.D., W. K. Oakes, M.D., J. A. Donovan, M.D., B. F. Sturgis, M.D., C. E. Williams, M.D., F. L. Dixon, M.D., W. E. Webber, M.D., B. G. W. Cushman, M.D., J. Sturgis, M.D., C. E. Norton, M.D., W. J. Pennell, M.D., A. A. Cobb, M.D., E. A. Crockett, M.D.

Superintendent, George P. Emmons, M.D.

Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Portland, Maine.

The Infirmary was founded to maintain a daily clinic for the gratuitous treatment of diseases of the poor who are unable to pay. The out-patient department opens every day, except Sundays and holidays, promptly at 8 A. M. and closes promptly at 9 A. M. The only requirement of the patient who seeks treatment in this department is that he is not able to pay.

All persons must be examined by the attending surgeon or house surgeon before they can be admitted as in-patients; a card will then be given them which will be signed by the superintendent to be presented to the clerk who will issue a card to the matron who will assign the room. When desired by the patient a friend may remain in the hospital during the treatment of a patient and the charge will be the same as for patients. A training school for nurses is connected.

Patients may be visited by friends from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M.

President, Fremont Hill; Treasurer, Frederic E. Boothby; Secretary, Frank W. Searle. Consulting Physicians and Surgeons, S. H. Weeks, S. C. Gordon, J. A. Donovan, C. W. -Bray, B. B. Foster, I. T. Dana, F. C. Thayer, D. A. Robinson, I. E. Kimball, S. P. Warren, G. A. Pudor, C. W. Foster, W. H. Bradford, H. T. Clough, A. K. P. Meserve, E. M. Fuller, H. P. Merrill, G. H. Cummings M. C. Wedgwood, W. K. Oakes, N. M. Marshall, H. F. Twitchell, W. L. Cousins, J. B. O'Neill, D. W. Fellows, Thomas Fillebrown, H. A. Kelley, James F. Hill. Out-Patient Department.

Attending Surgeons: E. E. Holt, D. J. Clough, A. H. Little.

Clinical Assistants: James F. Hill and Charles O. Caswell.

For Nose and Throat, Owen Smith, M.D., Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

For Nervous and Medical Cases: Physician, S. Thayer, Assistant, Daniel Driscoll, attend Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; Physician, A. K. P. Meserve, Assistant, J. P. Badger, attend Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Superintendent, F. W. Searle, M.Ď.

Eastern Maine General Hospital.
Bangor, Maine.

Organized in 1892. The hospital has accommodations for about fifty patients. The hospital has a contagious ward, a general ward, an out-patient department, and a school for nurses. Five hundred and fifty-four surgical, two hundred and eighteen medical and seventyseven eye, ear, nose and throat cases were treated during the year ending June 6, 1902. Partly free.

President, Charles Hamlin; Vice-President, Edward Stetson; Secretary, Charles H. Bartlett; Treasurer, Charles D. Crosby.

Consulting Physicians and Surgeons: Charles D. Smith, Elbridge A. Thompson, Geo. A. Phillips, Hannibal Hamlin, Arthur W. Rowe, Hiram Hunt, Charles E. William, Alfred D. Sawyer, Samuel B. Hunter, Geo. W. Foster.

Visiting Physicians: Galen M. Woodcock, Daniel McCann, Atwell W. Swett, Calvin P. Thomas.

Visiting Surgeons: William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter L. H. Hunt, Daniel A. Robinson.

Eye and Ear Surgeon, Herbert T. Clough.

Superintendent, Ellen F. Paine.

Throat and Nose Surgeon, Harry Butler.

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