Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
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Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1
Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons; Toxicology
TRANSIENT PRACTITIONER.—Any person attempting to practise medicine
or surgery for a valuable consideration by opening a transient office
within the commonwealth, or by handbill or other form of written or
printed advertisement, assigning such transient office or other place
to persons seeking medical or surgical advice, or prescribing or
itinerating from place to place or from house to house and proposing to
cure any person sick or afflicted, by the use of any medicine, means,
or agency whatsoever, for a valuable consideration, shall before being
allowed to practise in this manner appear before the clerk of the
court of quarter sessions of the county where he desires to practise
and furnish satisfactory evidence to such clerk that this act has been
complied with, and shall take out a license for one year and pay $50
therefor (_ib._, s. 4).
PENALTY.—To violate this act is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine
of from $200 to $400 for each offence (_ib._, s. 5).
QUALIFICATION.—Every person who shall practise medicine or surgery,
or any of their branches, for gain, or shall receive or accept for his
services any fee or reward directly or indirectly, shall be a graduate
of a legally chartered medical college or university having authority
to confer the degree of doctor of medicine (except as provided in
sec. 5), and shall present to the prothonotary of the county in which
he resides or sojourns his medical diploma as well as a true copy
of the same, including any indorsements thereon, and make affidavit
before him that the diploma and indorsements are genuine; thereupon
the prothonotary shall enter in the register the name in full of the
practitioner, his place of nativity, place of residence, the name of
the college or university that has conferred the degree of doctor of
medicine, the year when it was conferred, and in like manner any other
degree or degrees that the practitioner may desire to place on record;
to all of which the practitioner shall make affidavit before the
prothonotary and the prothonotary shall place the copy of the diploma
and indorsements on file (Act June 8th, 1881, s. 2).
Any person whose medical diploma has been destroyed or lost shall
present to the prothonotary of the county in which he resides or
sojourns a duly certified copy of his diploma, but if the same is
not obtainable a statement of this fact, with the names of the
professors whose lectures he attended and the branches of study upon
which each professor lectured, to all of which the practitioner shall
make affidavit before the prothonotary; after which the practitioner
shall be allowed to register and the prothonotary shall place such
certificate or statement on file (_ib._, s. 3).
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