1626 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 682

sub-title "Practitioners of Medicine", and to repeal Sec-
tions 122 and 134 of said Article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 120 and 121 of Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Ed. and 1947 Supp. ), title
"Health", sub-title "Practitioners of Medicine", be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

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 anatomy, physi-
ology, medical chemistry, surgery, practice of medicine,
therapeutics and pharmacology, 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.

121. All persons, except physicians who were prac-
ticing medicine in this State prior to the first day of Janu-
ary, 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 applica-
tion 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 received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor
of medicine from some legally incorporated medical college
in the United States or some foreign country; said diploma,
if from a college in the United States, must have been
conferred by a legally incorporated college having entrance
requirements, standard of education, and requirements for
graduation as defined by the Association of American
Medical Colleges or the Intercollegiate Committee of the
American Institute of Homeopathy, respectively; and if
from a college in a foreign country, the entrance require-
ments, standard of education, and requirements for gradu-
ation shall be equivalent to the standard defined by the
Association of American Medical Colleges or the Inter-
collegiate Committee of the American Institute of Home-