RT Journal
T1 THe michigan medical bill.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD June 24
VO XXXII
IS 25
SP 1454
OP 1454
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450520052017
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450520052017
AB The medical law which has just passed both houses of the Michigan legislature is an advance on the Illinois statute which goes into effect next month, in that it does not except faith cures or such as cure by mental means without administration of drugs or material remedies. There was such a clause inserted, but it was thrown out by the Senate, and this was concurred in by the conference committee. The bill calls for a mixed licensing board of ten members, who may be selected by the governor from lists of treble the number required, submitted by the incorporated State societies of the respective schools of medicine—regular, homeopathic, eclectic and physiomedical—to be represented on the board. This body can not do business without concurrence of at least seven of its members. License shall be issued to any one who was a regularly registered and licensed physician under the act