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
Persons not registered, for hire, gain, or the hope of reward,
practising or professing to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery,
or advertising to give advice in medicine, surgery, or midwifery, are
liable to a penalty of from $25 to $100 (_ib._, s. 74).
A person wilfully or falsely pretending to be a physician, doctor
of medicine, surgeon, or general practitioner, or assuming a title,
addition, or description other than he actually possesses and is
legally entitled to, is liable to a penalty of from $10 to $50 (_ib._,
s. 75).
For a person to assume a title calculated to lead people to infer that
he is registered, or is recognized by law as a physician, surgeon,
or accoucheur or a licentiate in medicine, surgery, or midwifery, is
punishable with a penalty of from $25 to $100 (_ib._, s. 76).
On prosecution, costs may be awarded in addition to the penalty, and
the offender may be committed to the common jail for one month, unless
the penalty and costs are sooner paid (_ib._, s. 78).
PROSECUTOR.—Any person may be prosecutor or complainant under the act
(_ib._, s. 80).
LIMITATIONS.—Prosecutions are limited to commence within six months
after the date of the offence (_ib._, s. 81).
APPEAL.—A person convicted under this act, giving notice of appeal,
must before being released give satisfactory security for the penalty
and costs of conviction and appeal (_ib._, s. 82).
STAY.—The council may stay proceedings in prosecutions (_ib._, s. 84).
FEES.—The council is authorized to determine by by-law an annual fee,
which is required to be paid by each member of the college—the fee can
be not less than $2, nor more than $5, is payable on January 1st, and
may be recovered as a debt by the college (_ib._, s. 32).
The fee for registration is subject to regulation by the council
(_ib._, s. 33).
NEW BRUNSWICK.
MEDICAL SOCIETY.—All persons registered under the act constitute the
New Brunswick Medical Society (Act 1881, c. 19, s. 2).
COUNCIL.—There is a medical council called the Council of Physicians
and Surgeons of New Brunswick, of nine legally qualified medical
practitioners, of not less than seven years’ standing; four are
nominated and appointed by the governor in council, and five by the New
Brunswick Medical Society (_ib._, s. 3, 5).
The secretary of the council is the registrar (_ib._, s. 7).
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