A consideration of the legal aspects of chiropractic : and more particularly of the question whether or not chiropractic is included within the terms of the Michigan Medical Act-Act. No. 237, Public Laws of 1899, as amended-and is subject to the provisions of that act. Brief, argument and authorities for the affirmative / by Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Counsel for American Medical Association.

  • Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Chicago.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: A consideration of the legal aspects of chiropractic : and more particularly of the question whether or not chiropractic is included within the terms of the Michigan Medical Act-Act. No. 237, Public Laws of 1899, as amended-and is subject to the provisions of that act. Brief, argument and authorities for the affirmative / by Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Counsel for American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    members of the board or by a qualified examiner appointed by the board, belonging to the same school as the applicant, and no applicant shall be rejected because of his adherence to any particular system of practice; * * *. Second. The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration if he shall present a certified copy or certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant in any foreign nation where the requirements of registration shall be deemed by said Board of Eegistration in Medicine to be equivalent to those of this act. Provided, Such country shall accord a like privilege to holders of certi- cates from this board. The fee for registration from applicants of this class shall be fifty dollars. Third. The applicant shall be registered and given a cer- tificate of registration if he shall present a certified copy of certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant within the states, territories, districts or prov- inces of the United States where the requirements for regis- tration shall be deemed by the Board of Eegistration in Medicine to be equivalent to those of this act, and shall other- wise conform to the rules and regulations agreed upon between the State Board of which he is a licentiate and said Board relative to the recognition and exchange of certificates between states. The fee for registration from applicants of this class shall be fifty dollars; * * * Sec. 4. The person receiving a certificate of registration shall file the same, or a certified copy thereof, with the county clerk in the county where he resides, * * *. Sec. 7. (This is as amended by Act No. 207, Public Laws of 1905.) Any person who shall practice medicine or surgery in this state, who is not the lawful possessor of a certificate of registration issued under and pursuant to act number two hundred thirty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, or the acts amendatory thereof, or without first complying with the provisions of this act, except as heretofore provided in section three of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, or by im- prisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by such fine and imprisonment, for each offense. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the counties of this State to prosecute violations of the provisions of this act. Sec. 8. This act shall not apply to the commissioned sur- geons of the United States army, navy or marine hospital service, in actual performance of their official duties, nor to regularly licensed physicians or surgeons from out of this State, in actual consultation with physicians of this State, nor