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title; but such matters shall not be written in said register or made
public until after the examination.

121.   At the first meeting of [an examining] the Board, or at a
stated or special meeting held subsequently, suitable provision shall
be made by [each of the examining boards] the Board to prepare
a schedule of examination upon anatomy, physiology, medical chem-
istry, surgery, practice of medicine, therapeutics and pharmacology,
obstetrics, [and] pathology, and bacteriology, 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 harmony
with the tenets of the school selected by the candidate; the standard
of requirements therein to be established by each board for itself.]

122.  [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 with-
in one year of said date said physician had treated in his professional
capacity at least twelve persons, who] Before any person shall com-
mence the practice of medicine or surgery in any of their branches
[after the eleventh day of April, 1902], he shall make a written
application for license to the [president of either] Board of Medical
Examiners [which said applicant may elect], accompanied by satis-
factory 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 con-
ferred by a legally incorporated college having entrance require-
ments, 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] Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the
American Medical Association; and if from a college in a foreign
country, the entrance requirements, standard of education, and re-
quirements for graduation shall be equivalent to the standard defined
by the Association of American Medical Colleges or the [Inter-
collegiate Committee of the American Institute of Homeopathy, re-
spectively, 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 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 pay-
ment of fee as provided.] Council on Medical Education and Hospitals
of the American Medical Association. The [president of the] Board
[to whom such application shall have been made], if satisfied with
the [same] application filed, shall direct the secretary-treasurer there-
of to issue to said applicant an order for examination, and when said
applicant shall have passed an examination as to proficiency satisfac-
tory to said Board the president thereof shall grant to such applicant
a license to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Maryland. If