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(To be Continued Next Saturday?)PROVISIONS OF THE MEDICINE PRACTICE RILL.An Important Measure Acted Upon By the Legislature of this State.The bill to regulate the practice of medicine provides for the exmination of all persons who desire to practice medicine by one of the three state boards provided for. Each of these boards is to be composed of nine members—one of them of aleopaths, one of homeopaths and one of eclectics. These boards are to be appointed by tne governor from the names submitted to I him by the state associations of the respective medical schools. No one is to be permitted to practice medicine unless he shall procure a license from one of these boards.The bill as passed has been amended so as to give any one the right to be examined by the board of his choice.whether he be a graduate of a reputableschol of medicine or not. It was also -amended so as to provide that the act ' shall not apply to persons who do not | ■ use medicines in the art of healing 1 (this exemption being intended to take , care of the osteopathists). Another amendment exempts from the operation of the bill “midwives who do not practice midwifery as a profession.*’ this amendment having been inserted to take care of women who go to the relief of neighbors when it is impossible to procure a doctor. 1 he latter amendment was accepted by the author [of the bill, and it is understood that lt;the measure as it now stands is fairly satisfactory to its friends.
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El Paso Daily Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Feb 16, 1901
Page 10
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Raul M.
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