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An. Code, 1924, sec. 119. 1912, sec. 111. 1904, sec. 82. 1888, sec. 42. 1888, ch. 429. 1892,
ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612. 1914, ch. 658.

120. At the first meeting of an examining board, or at a stated or
special meeting held subsequently, suitable provision shall be made by each
of the examining boards to prepare a schedule of examination upon anat-
omy, physiology, medical chemistry, surgery, practice of medicine, materia
medica, therapeutics, obstetrics and pathology, and the same standard of
excellence shall be required from all candidates. In the department of
therapeutics and practice, the question shall be in harmony with the tenets
of the school selected by the candidate; the standard of requirements
therein to be established by each board for itself. Whenever members
of any board are necessarily absent from meeting held for the examination
of applicants for licenses, suitable temporary provision shall be made for
thorough examination in each and all of the aforesaid subjects by members
present. The examination shall be fundamental in character. The votes
of all the examiners present shall be "yes" or "no," written with their
signature upon the backs of the examination papers of each candidate for
the respective branches.
Cited but not construed in Scholle v. State, 90 Md. 738.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 120. 1912, sec. 112. 1904, sec. 82. 1888, sec. 42. 1888, ch. 429. 1892,
ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612. 1914, ch. 658. 1916, ch. 230.

121. All persons, except physicians who were practicing medicine in
this State prior to the first day of January, 1898, who are now practicing
medicine or surgery and can prove by affidavit that within one year of said
date said physician had treated in his professional capacity at least twelve
persons, who shall commence the practice of medicine or surgery in any
of their branches after the eleventh day of April, 1902, shall make a writ-
ten application for license to the president of either board of medical
examiners which said applicant may elect, accompanied by satisfactory
proof that the applicant is more than twenty-one years of age, is of good
moral character, and has either received a diploma conferring the degree
of doctor of medicine from some legally incorporated medical college in
the United States or a diploma or license conferring the full rights to
practice all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign coun-
try ; said diploma, if from a college in the United States, must have been
conferred by a legally incorporated college having entrance requirements
and a standard of education as defined by the Association of American
Medical Colleges or the Intercollegiate Committee of the American Insti-
tute of Homeopathy, respectively; provided, that this requirement shall
not apply to any physician who shall, prior to the eleventh day of April,
1902, have practiced outside of this State for at least three years, and
who shall have been duly registered Or licensed in the place where he has
so practiced; provided further, that two courses of medical lectures, both
of which shall be either begun or completed within the same calendar year,
shall not satisfy the above requirements; provided also, that in the case of
students who, on April 11, 1902, shall be in their second year in a medical
college, a three years' course of study, or attendance on three courses of
lectures delivered in different years, shall satisfy said requirements. Proof
of the qualification of applicants as above shall, if required, be made by
affidavits at the time of the making of said application and payment of fee
as provided. The president of the board to whom such application shall
have been made, if satisfied with the same, shall direct the secretary-