DEFINITION, EXCEPTIONS.—To operate on, profess to heal, prescribe for, or otherwise treat any physical or mental ailment of another, is to practise medicine under this act. But it does not prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency, nor apply to commissioned surgeons in the United States army or navy, nor to nurses in their legal occupation, nor to the administration of ordinary household remedies (_ib._, s. 17). ITINERANT VENDER.—To be an itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance for the treatment of disease or injury, or for such an one to publicly profess to cure or to treat disease or injury or deformity by any drug, nostrum, manipulation, or other expedient, is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of from $50 to $100, or imprisonment in the county jail from thirty days to three months, or both, for each offence (_ib._, s. 18). FEES.—To the secretaries of the board of health, for certificate at time of application, $5. To the secretaries of the board of health, for taking testimony, same fees as a notary public is allowed for same service (_ib._, s. 19). To county clerk, for recording, usual register’s fees for recording (_ib._, s. 10). NEVADA. QUALIFICATION.—No person can lawfully practise medicine or surgery who has not received a medical education and a diploma from some regularly chartered medical school having a _bona fide_ existence when the diploma was granted (Act of 1875, c. 46, s. 1). A copy of the diploma must be filed for record with the county recorder of the county in which the person practises, and at the same time the original, or a certificate from the dean of the medical school of which he is a graduate, certifying to his graduation, must be exhibited (_ib._, s. 2). The person filing a copy of a diploma or a certificate of graduation must be identified as the person named therein, by the affidavit of two citizens of the county, or his affidavit taken before a notary public or commissioner of deeds for this State, which affidavit must be filed in the office of the county recorder (_ib._, s. 3). PENALTY.—Practising without complying with this act is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of from $50 to $500, or imprisonment in the county jail from thirty days to six months, or both, for each offence. Filing a diploma or a certificate of another or a forged affidavit of identification is a felony (_ib._, s. 4). EXCEPTIONS.—The act does not apply to a person who in an emergency may prescribe or give advice in medicine or surgery in a township where no physician resides, or when no physician or surgeon resides within convenient distance, nor to those who had practised medicine or surgery in the State for ten years next preceding the passage of the act, nor to persons prescribing in their own family (_ib._, s. 6). NEW JERSEY.