Requisitions for graduation in the various medical colleges; and requisitions for license to practice physic and surgery, in the various states and territories of the Union.

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[1832]
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Credit: Requisitions for graduation in the various medical colleges; and requisitions for license to practice physic and surgery, in the various states and territories of the Union. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    REQUISITIONS FOR LICENSE. Maine.—The Medical Society of Maine was incorporated in 1821, with powers to make by-laws, and it was required to choose Censors for examining and licensing students in medicine. The by-laws require that the time of study shall not be less than three years. The examiners in case both of the degree of M. D., from Bowdoin College, and of license, consist of the Medical Fac- ulty of said College, and of the Censors of the State Medical Society.—Professor Cleaveland of Bowdoin College. ' By an act passed in January 1831, it is ordained, that “ na person shall be entitled to recover a compensation for .servi- ces rendered as a physician or surgeon, unless he shall have received a medical degree, or .shall have been licensed by the Censors of the Maine Medical Society.”—American Jurist, G, p. 441. New-Hampshire.—There is no state law regulating the practice of physic and surgery. The charter of the New- Hampshire State Medical Society, granted in 1731, gives full powers to its members to enact such by-laws for the regula- tion of its concerns, as shall not be repugnant to the laws of the state. The requisitions for a license arc, to have arrived at the age of 21 years; to have a competent knowledge of the English and Latin languages, and a general acquaintance with the principles of geometry and natural philosophy; to have studied three full years with some respectable practi- tioner, and to have attended a full course of lectures at some incorporated medical institution. The degree of M. D. from any regular institution where medicine i.s publicly taught in all its branches, is an adequate license to practice; and a li- cense from one of the sister state societies, whose by-laws re- quire as full a course of preparatory study, is recognized by the Ncw-IIampshirc Medical Society.—Communicaiion from Professor 3Iussct/, of Barimouth College.