1116 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

peutics, obstetrics and pathology, and the same standard of

excellence shall be required from all candidates. In the depart-
ment of therapeutics and practice, the question shall be in har-
mony 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 neces-
sarily absent from meeting held for the examination of appli-
cants for licenses, suitable temporary provision shall be made
for thorough examination in each and all of the aforesaid sub-
jects by members present. The examination shall be funda-
mental 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 re-
spective branches.

SEC. 112. 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 written application for license to the president of either board

of medical examiners which said applicant may elect, accom-
panied 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 country; said diploma, if from a college in the United
States, must have been conferred by a legally incorporated col-
lege having entrance requirements and a standard of education
as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges or
the Intercollegiate Committee of the American Institute 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 wher 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