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cessfully passed in some legally incorporated reputable osteopathic school,
or college, prior to the granting of said diploma or foreign license; pro-
vided, however, that any applicant who shall have completed a course of
study in any osteopathic college, consisting of three years of nine months
each, and a post-graduate course of at least five months, aggregating at
least thirty-two months, shall be accepted in lieu of the full period of
four years of eight months each, provided for in this sub-title. Provided,
further, that anyone who is in the practice of osteopathy in some other
State on April 13, 1914, and who is a graduate from a reputable and legally
incorporated college of osteopathy, providing a course of study of at least
four terms of five months each shall be eligible for examination, upon all
other terms and conditions provided for applicants for examination under
the provisions of this sub-title. And provided, further, that the completion
of the regular four years' course and graduation from a reputable literary
college in which four years' course, two years were devoted to scientific and
biological work in said literary college, shall be accepted by the State Board
of Osteopathic Examiners as an equivalent for the first year in a recognized
reputable osteopathic college. Provided, that the examinations of the first
year of the said osteopathic college have been successfully passed, and
accepted by the osteopathic college as dealing adequately with chemistry,
toxicology, physics, physiology, anatomy and the biologic sciences. Such
proof shall be made, if required, on affidavit. Upon the making of said
payment and proof, the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners, if satisfied
with the same, shall admit said applicant to examination as to his qualifi-
cations for the practice of osteopathy; which examination shall include the
subjects of anatomy, physiology, hygiene, principles and practice of oste-
opathy. On receiving from the committee of examiners, delegated to con-
duct examinations as provided for in Section 353 of this Article, official
report of the examination of any applicant for license, the said State Board
of Osteopathic Examiners shall issue, forthwith, to each applicant who shall
have obtained a general average of not less than seventy-five per centum,
and therefore has been returned as having successfully passed said examina-
tion, and who shall have been adjudged by the said Board of Examiners
to be duly qualified for the practice of osteopathy, a license to practice
osteopathy in the State of Maryland, as provided for in Section 358 of this
Article. In case of failure at any such examinations the candidate, after
the expiration of six months, and within two years, shall have the privi-
lege of a second examination. Having failed upon a second examination,
as herein provided, application de novo may be made, upon conforming
with the standard of qualification both as to character, preliminary and
osteopathic education, in force at the time of said application, and upon the
payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars.
See notes to sec. 357.

An. Code, sec. 298. 1914, ch. 786. 1916, ch. 522.

357. A school or college of osteopathy to be recognized as reputable
under the provisions of this sub-title must be legally incorporated, prosecute
a course of study consisting of the element as provided for under the pro-