154 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 120.

AN ACT to repeal Section 101, Article 43 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, title "Health, " sub-title "Practitioners of
Medicine, " and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 101 of Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Health, " sub-title "Practitioners of Medicine, " be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:

101. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine
within the meaning of this sub-title who shall append to his
or her name the words or letters "Dr., " "Doctor, " "M. D., " or
any other title in connection with his name, with the intent
thereby to imply that he or she is engaged in the art or science
of healing, or in the practice of medicine in any of its branches,
or who shall operate on, profess to heal, prescribe for, or other-
wise treat any physical or mental ailment or supposed mental
ailment of another, or who shall for hire or for any gratuity
or compensation, either directly or indirectly 'to him or her
paid, undertake by any appliance, operation or treatment of
whatever nature, to cure, heal or treat any bodily or mental
ailment or supposed ailment of another; or who for any hire,
gratuity or compensation, either directly or indirectly to him
or her paid, by or for any patient, shall undertake to treat, heal,
cure, drive away or remove any physical or mental ailment, or
supposed ailment of another, by mental or other process, exer-
cised or invoked on the part of either the healer or the patient,
or both; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to
apply to gratuitous services, nor to any resident or assistant
resident physicians or students at hospitals in the discharge
of their hospital or dispensary duties, or in the office of phy-
sicians, or to any physician or surgeon from another State,
Territory or district in which he resides when in actual con-
sultation with a legal practitioner of this State; or to commis-
sioned surgeons, of the United States Army, or Navy, or insane
hospital service, or opticians or chiropodists, or to midwives, or
to masseurs, or other manual manipulators who use no other
means; nor shall the provisions of this sub-title apply to phy-
sicians 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 an office or appoint places to meet their patients
or receive calls within the limits of this State without com-
plying with the provisions of this sub-title; provided, that