RT Journal
T1 COlorado medical legislation.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD May 6
VO XXXII
IS 18
SP 1005
OP 1005
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450450045011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450450045011
AB The Colorado Medical Practice Act, which was noted in the Journal of April 15 as having passed both branches of the legislature, was finally vetoed by the enlightened governor of that State. His objections to the bill in his feebly sarcastic veto message, as reported, are: that it admits "that the public health may be protected by three different systems of materia medica and therapeutics," that it makes the use of the title of "Dr." a misdemeanor even in D. D's., and veterinary surgeons; that it will not protect the public health, which is already good enough in Colorado, and, lastly, that nearly all advance in medicine has been made by physicians who were in opposition to their' brethren—not by, "but notwithstanding the great body of its professors." The message reads as if it were written by a quack.