ART. 43] PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE. 1107

Practitioners of Medicine.

1904, art. 43, sec. 78. 1S88, art. 43, sec. 39. 18SS, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296.

1902, ch. 612.

107. All persons now practising medicine and surgery, or who
shall hereafter begin to practise medicine and surgery in any of their
departments, except dentistry, in the State of Maryland, shall possess
the qualification required by this sub-title.

History of the various acts prescribng the qualifications of physicians,
traced; purpose thereof. Manger v. Board of Examiners, 90 Md. 665; Scholle
v. State, 90 Md. 740.

This section referred to in construing section 112. Watson v. State, 105
Md. 654 (affirmed in 218 U. S. 174).
As to practicing dentistry, see art. 32.

Ibid. sec. 79. 1888, art. 43, sec. 40. 1888, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612.

108. From and after the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, there shall be and continue to be two separate boards
of medical examiners for the State of Maryland—one representing the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, and one
representing the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society of the
State of Maryland. The members of said respective boards in office on
the eleventh d'ay of April, 1902, shall continue to hold and exercise
their respective offices up to the first Tuesday in June, nineteen hun-
dred and two. On the first Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and
two, said two boards of medical examiners shall be reorganized, and
thereafter said boards shall be constituted as follows: Each of said
boards shall consist of eight members, who shall be selected by the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, and the
Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, respectively, at the
annual meetings of said respective societies; and each appointee is
immediately after his election to be furnished with a certificate thereof
by the society electing him. Each such member of said respective boards,
except those elected in the year nineteen hundred and two, shall serve
for four years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified. At their
respective annual meetings held in the year nineteen hundred and two,
each of said aforementioned societies shall elect the full number of eight
examiners for its respective board, of whom two shall be elected for four
years, two for three years, two for two years, and two for one year, and
thereafter two examiners shall be elected by each society in each year,
as hereinbefore provided, to serve for a term of four years or until
their successors are appointed and qualified, the outgoing members to
be eligible for re-election. The terms of office of all members so elected
shall begin on the first Tuesday in June, in the year in which they
shall be respectively elected; each board is to have the exclusive right
to examine, pass upon the qualifications of and license its own appli-
cants. The examiners shall be physicians actually engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland, and of recognized
ability and honor. No member of any medical college or university,