Medical Laws of Vermont. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, CHAPTER 172, REVISED LAWS 1880. SECTION 3908. Medical societies, organized under a charter from the general assembly shall at each annual session, elect a board of censors, consisting of three members, who shall hold their office till others are elected; which board may examine and license practitioners of medicine, surgery and midwifery. 3909. A practitioner of medicine, surgery or midwifery, who, by sign or advertisement, offers his services to the public as practitioner of either medicine, surgery or midwifery, or who, by such sign or advertisement, assumes the title of doctor, shall obtain a certificate from one of such medical societies, either from a county, district or State society. 3910. A person not a resident of this State, who has not received a diploma from a chartered medical college, shall obtain a certificate from a board of censors in this State before he shall be permitted to practice the medical art in this State. Each board of censors shall issue certificates, without fee, to physicians and surgeons who furnish evidence, by diploma from a medical college or university, or by certificate of examination from an authorized board, which satisfies said censors that the person presenting such credentials has been, after due examination, deemed qualified to practice the branches mentioned in such diploma or certificate. 3912. The censors of each medical society aforesaid shall, in their discretion, notify practitioners of medicine, surgery or midwifery of the terms of this chapter, and shall require such persons to comply therewith within thirty days after such notification, or within such further time as is allowed by the censors, not exceeding ninety days. 3913. The certificate shall set forth that said censors have found the person to whom it is given qualified to practice the branches of medical art mentioned in it, and shall be substantially in the following form: State of, qualified in the following branches of the medical profession : to practice said branches within this State. 3916. Penalty. A person who practices medicine, surgery or midwifery in the State, or signs a certificate of death for purposes of burial or removal, unless authorized so to do, by a certificate and recorded as provided, shall for the first offense be fined not less than fifty, nor more than two hundred dollars, and for subsequent offenses, not less than two hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, which fine may be recovered in an action of debt for the use of any person who sues therefor or by an indictment. |