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In the remaining four, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and 

 Louisiana, prohibitory laws were still in force. 



No intelligence was received from Delaware, Michigan, Illinois 

 and Arkansas. 



Since the report was made, all legal enactments relative to the 

 practice of medicine in the State of New York, have been repealed. 



This committee was instructed to report upon the subject of "the 

 two reports submitted," at the last meeting of the Association, "by 

 the committee on the separation of teaching and licensing." 



The preamble and resolution, at the conclusion of the report, 

 signed by a majority of that committee, are as follows : — 



" Whereas, A general sentiment prevails in the medical profession, 

 that the active competition existing amongst the medical colleges of 

 the Union, has a tendency to lower the standard of professional re- 

 quirement, and to depreciate the value of the degree. 



" And Whereas, The facility with which charters for medical cor- 

 porations are obtained from our State governments, exposes the 

 medical profession to the continuance and increase of these abuses, 

 inasmuch as these corporations possess alike the power of granting 

 the license to practise — 



" Therefore Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Convention, 

 some additional checks to the exercise of this right should be esta- 

 blished by the great body of the medical profession." 



The existence of abuses, and the necessity of a remedy for them 

 are here recognized, but no specific mode of action is proposed, 

 and, consequently, no comment appears to be called for by this 

 committee. 



The resolutions appended to the report, signed by a minority of 

 that committee, were as follows : — 



" Resolved, That inasmuch as an opinion prevails to a consider- 

 able extent in the profession, that certain abuses have crept into 

 some of the medical colleges, namely, that they confer degrees upon 

 persons who have not fully complied with their own requirements, 

 or on those who do not possess the requisite amount of knowledge 

 to entitle them to such distinction, it is deemed expedient by this 

 Convention, in order to satisfy the just wishes of the profession, and 

 to remove just grounds of complaint, that such colleges as do not 

 already possess mixed boards of examiners, should consent to have 

 associated with them in the examination for degrees some members 



