978 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15

"49. Repealed. "

"51. Repealed. "

"52. Said boards shall make a report to the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and the Maryland
State Homeopathic Medical Society, respectively, at each
annual meeting of said respective societies. "

"61. Any person shall be regarded as practising medi-
cine within the meaning of this Act, who shall attempt to
heal, operate on or prescribe for any ailment of another,
or shall append to his or her name the letters M. D., or
prefix the word Doctor, or the abbreviation thereof, Dr.,
to his or her name, with the intent thereby to imply
that he or she is a practitioner of medicine or surgery;
but nothing herein contained shall be construed to pro-
hibit gratuitous services, nor to interfere with any resi-
dent or assistant resident physicians or students at hos-
pitals in the discharge of their hospital or dispensary
duties, or with any physician or surgeon from another
State or Territory in which he resides, when in actual

consultation with a legal practitioner of this State, or

with commissioned surgeons of the United States Army
or Navy or Marine Hospital service, or with midwives;
nor shall the provisions of this Act apply to physicians or
surgeons residing on the borders of a neighboring State
and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice
medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extends into
the limits of this State; provided that such practitioners
shall not open au office or appoint a place to meet pat-
ients or receive calls within the limits of this State with-
out complying with the provisions of this Act. It shall
be unlawful after the passage of this Act for any one to
engage in the itinerant vending of any drug, nostrum,
ointment or application of any kind, intended for the
treatment of disease or injury, or for any such itinerant
vender by writing or printing, or any other method, to
profess to cure or treat disease, injury or deformity by
any drug, nostrum, manipulation or other expedient. Any
such itinerant vender so offending shall, upon conviction,
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
in the city or county jail for not less than thirty nor
more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the
Court, for each offense.