188                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 97

medicine in any of its branches. Any person who practices medicine
or the art or science of healing shall be considered as a practitioner
of medicine or surgery. As used herein the phrase "art or science of
healing" and the phrase "practice of medicine" shall be construed to
include: Operating on, professing to heal, prescribing for or other-
wise diagnosing or treating any physical or mental ailment or sup-
posed ailment of another; or for hire or gratuity or compensation,
either directly or indirectly paid, undertaking by appliance opera-
tion or treatment of whatever nature, to cure, heal, diagnose or treat
any bodily or mental ailment or supposed ailment of another; or for
hire, gratuity or compensation, either directly or indirectly paid, by
or for any patient, undertaking to treat, heal, cure, drive away or
remove any physical or mental ailment, or supposed ailment of an-
other, by mental or other process, exercised or invoked on the part
of either the medical practitioner or the patient or both. Nothing
herein contained shall be construed to apply to gratuitous services,
nor to any resident or assistant resident physicians or interns or stu-
dents at hospitals in the discharge of their hospital or dispensary
duties, or in the office of physicians, or to any physician or surgeon
from another state, territory or district in which he resides when in
actual consultation with a legal practitioner of this State; or to com-
missioned surgeons of the United States Army, or Navy, or United
States Public Service hospitals and Veterans Administration hospi-
tals, or to opticians or masseurs, or other manual manipulators who
use no other means, or to the following which are provided for in
other sections of this article hereinafter indicated; Midwives, Sec-
tions 82-94; optometrists, Sections 368-386; osteopaths, Sections 467-
480; chiropodists, Sections 481-494; chiropractors, Sections 499-514;
physical therapists, Sections 604-614; nor shall the provisions of this
sub-title apply to physicians 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 complying with the provisions
of this sub-title; provided that the same privileges be accorded to
licensed physicians of this State; provided, further, that nothing in
this sub-title shall annul any of the provisions of Article 32, title
"Dentistry", nor shall apply to any registered graduate of dental
surgery now practicing in the said State of Maryland, with the sign
title: Dentist, surgeon dentist, dental surgeon or stomatologist, and
further that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the administration of anesthetics for medical purposes by a legally
qualified dentist except as a medical specialty; and provided, further,
that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent or
in any way make unlawful or interfere with the sale by manufactur-
ing, wholesale or retail druggists, or any person dealing in drugs or
medicines of any proprietary or patent medicine or any official or
standard drug or medicine; provided further, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to repeal or in any manner affect the
provisions of Section 140 of this article, relating to certain Christian
Science practitioners.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved March 14, 1963.