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or licensed under this sub-title; but such matters shall not be
written in said register or made public until after the examina-
tion.

1888, art. 43, sec. 42. 1888, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612.

82. 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 written examination upon anatomy, 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 pro-
vision shall be made for thorough examination in each and all
of the aforesaid subjects by members present. The examina-
tion 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.

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

83. All persons, except physicians who were practising
medicine in this State prior to the first day of January, 1898,
who are now practising 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 written 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,
has obtained a competent common school education, 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 practise all the branches of medicine and surgery in
some foreign country; said diploma, if from a college in the
United States, must have been conferred by a legally incorpo-