Blair, Jr., Ohio; Holloway, A. L., Indiana; Hyde, M. E. Mrs., Illinois; Jacobson, C. H., Minnesota; Johnson, G. W., Illinois; Leland, K. W., Illinois; Lemker, H. L., Illinois; McCray, J. W., Illinois; Paaren, N. H., Illinois; Pagin, C. J., Iowa; Parker, J. M., Ohio; Stevens, A. E., Iowa; Sedgwick, H. C., Illinois; Stone, J. W., Michigan; Struble, John, Illinois; Stutzman, T. B., Illinois; Turner, D. J., Nebraska ; Tucker, H. S., Illinois.

Dr. T. B. Stutzman, of Bloomington, Ill., delivered the Valedictory Address, which was replete with interesting facts pertaining to medicine as a science as distinguished from the impiricism of former days, etc. After which, he addressed his classmates, exhorting them to industry and nobility, and to develop their minds and hearts, and dedicate and consecrate their lives to successful and abundant ministrations in the cause of humanity.

The address on behalf of the Faculty was delivered by Prof. E. M. Reading, which will be found in full in another part of this number of the TIMES. Altogether this, the Eleventh Annual Commencement at "Bennett," was a grand success; and we feel confident that these accessions to the Alumni of the College, will ever be found among the hard workers and successful members of the profession.

PROF. GOSS' EXTRACTS FROM PRACTICE.

During the past year, we published a series of excerpts from new Materia Medica, written by I. J. M. Goss, M. D., of Marietta, Ga. These articles, by their plain, concise statements of new scientific truths in Therapeutics, attracted the attention of hundreds of TIMES readers, and accomplished much in the way of "stirring up" many old practitioners to undertake the restudy of the Materia Medica; to learn more of the modern ideas in reference to Therapeutics. Many thanks are due to Prof. Goss for many pithy sentences contained in these excerpts.

To a large number of physicians throughout the Northwest, who have written us, and requested a continuance of the

excerpts (through this next volume), we are pleased to reply, that we have made arrangements with Prof. Goss, to furnish extracts from his forthcoming work on the principles and practice of medicine.

The first of the series of "extracts" appears in this issue; and judging from this introductory chapter, we infer that the Professor intends that this work shall be mainly composed of extracts that are solid, and will prove quite interesting to the busy practitioner.

DR. POTTER'S NEW WORK.

By referring to the "Book Reviews" in this MEDICAL TIMES, our readers will learn that the book is now ready for delivery, and is "a Compendium of the Principles and Practice of Medicine," which is in all respects what the title implies. It is a full and faithful digest of recorded facts and opinions derived from standard authorities to the present date, and entirely unpartisan. A book such as students and physicians need. See advertisement.

THE KANSAS MEDICAL LAW.

As several of our State Legislatures have been considering and enacting laws for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery, we present our readers with the full text of "the Kansas law," which contains some new features as compared with the statutes of some of the older States:

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE STATE OF KANSAS.

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

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SECTION 1. Every person in this State practicing medicine or surgery in any of its departments shall possess the qualifications required by this act. Every such person shall present his diploma to one of the Boards of Examiners herein named, together with affidavit mentioned in Section 4 of this act. If the Board shall find all the facts required to be stated in said affidavit to be true, the Board of Examiners shall issue

its certificate to that effect, signed by a majority of the members thereof, and sealed with the seal of the Board, and such certificate shall be conclusive as to the rights of the person named therein to practice medieine and surgery in any part of this State.

SEC. 2. The Kansas Medical Society, the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of Kansas, the Homeopathic State Medical Society, corporations organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of this State, or either of them, and no other corporation, society, person or persons, shall each appoint annually a Board of Examiners, consisting of seven members, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors shall be chosen and qualified. The Examiners so appointed shall go before some Judge of the District Court or Probate Judge of this State, and make oath that they are graduates of either the Allopathic, Eclectic or Homeopathic Schools, and that they will faithfully perform the duties of their office. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Examiners shall be filled by the Society appointing it by the selection of alternates or otherwise. The Boards of Examiners now organized or existing, or that may be hereafter organized under and by virtue of their appointments by any of the Societies mentioned in this section, shall continue to act as such boards until their successors are appointed at the annual election.

SEC. 3. The Boards of Examiners shall organize within three months after the passage of this act. They shall procure a seal, and receive through their Secretary applications for certificates and examinations. The President of each Board shall have authority to administer oaths, and the Board take testimony in all meetings relating to their duties. They shall issue certificates to all who furnish satisfactory proof of having diplomas or licenses from legally-chartered medical institutions in good standing. They shall prepare two forms of certificates, one for persons in possession of diplomas or licenses, the other for candidates examined by the Board. They shall send to the County Clerk of the several counties of this State a list of all persons receiving certificates. In selecting places to hold their meetings, they shall, as far as is

reasonable, accommodate applicants residing in different sections of the State, and due notice shall be published of all their meetings. Certificates shall be signed by all the members of the Board granting them, and shall indicate the Medical Society to which the Board is attached. The Board shall meet within thirty days after application made to its Secretary by any person desiring examination.

SEC. 4. Said Board of Examiners shall examine diplomas as to their genuineness, and if the diploma shall be found genuine as represented, the Secretary of the Board of Examiners shall receive a fee of $5 from each graduate or licentiate, and no further charge shall be made to the applicant; but if it be found to be fraudulent, or not lawfully owned by the possessor, the Board shall be entitled to charge and collect $20 of the applicant presenting such diploma. The applicant shall accompany his diploma with an affidavit stating that he is the lawful possessor of the same; that he is the person therein named; that the diploma was procured in the regular course of medical instruction, and without fraud or misrepresentation of any kind, and that the medical institution granting the diploma had, at the time of the granting the same, a full corps of medical instructors, and was at the said time a legallyincorporated institution, actually and in good faith engaged in the business of medical education, and in good standing as a medical institution, and that the applicant has complied with all the requirements of said institution. Such affidavit may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, and the same shall be attested under the hand and official seal of such officer, if he have a seal. In addition to such affidavit, the Board of Examiners may hear such further testimony as in their discretion they may deem proper to hear as to the verification of any such diploma, or as to the identity of the person named therein, or as to the manner in which any such diploma was procured; and, if it should appear from such testimony that any fact stated in said affidavit is untrue, the application of such person for a certificate shall be rejected. None of said Boards shall entertain an application which has been rejected by another of said Boards, nor shall any rejected

application be renewed until at least one year after the action of the Board rejecting the same.

SEC. 5. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made directly by the Board, and the certificates given by the Boards shall authorize the persons to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Kansas.

SEC. 6. Every person holding a certificate from a Board of Examiners shall have it recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which he resides, and the recording of the same shall be indorsed thereon. Any person removing to another county to practice, shall procure an indorsement to that effect on the certificate from the County Clerk, and shall record the certificate in like manner in the county to which he removes, and the holder of the certificate shall pay to the County Clerk the usual fees for making the record.

SEC. 7. The County Clerk shall keep in a book provided for that purpose a complete list of the certificates recorded by him, with the date of the issue and the name of the medical society represented by the Board of Examiners issuing them. If the certificate be based on a diploma or license, he shall record the name of the medical institution conferring it, and the date when conferred. The register of the County. Clerk shall be open to public inspection during business hours.

SEC. 8. Candidates for examination shall pay a fee of five dollars, in advance. The fees received by the Board shall be paid into the Treasury of the medical society by which the Board shall have been appointed, and the expenses and compensation of the Board shall be subject to arrangement of the society.

SEC. 9. Examinations may be in whole or in part in writing, and shall be of an elementary and practical character, but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the candidate as a practitioner.

SEC. 10. Each of said Board of Examiners may from time to time adopt such rules as may be necessary to the orderly conduct of all proceedings taken and had before it. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the respective