CHAPTER III. 



REGULATION OF THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY 

 SURGERY. 



§ 30. Authority of the State. § 37. The License Itself. 



§ 31. License to Practice. § 38. Revocation of License. 



§ 32. Standards for License. § 39. Attorney for Board of 

 § 33. Appointment of Examin- Examiners. 



ers. § 40. "What Constitutes Prac- 

 § 34. Exceptions. tiee of Veterinary Med- 



§35. Certificate in the Place of ieine or Surgery? 



License. § 41, Practice as a Company. 



§36. License by Reciprocity. §42. Prosecutions, by Whom? 



30. Authority of the State. According to the 

 American legal system, each state has the guar- 

 dianship of the welfare of people and property 

 within its own boundaries. Under police power 

 it has not only the right, but also the duty, to enact 

 such laws, and enforce such regulations as seem 

 to be necessary to insure the good of its citizens. 

 Veterinary medicine and surgery is a branch of 

 the general practice of medicine and surgery, and 

 in point of legal principles involved it in no wise 

 differs from those pertaining to the practice of 

 those arts among human beings. Both involve 

 the same general lines of study. While the 

 diseases of human beings differ in many instances 

 from those afflicting animals, and while the ap- 

 propriate treatment may vary, essentially the two 

 sciences are the same. In the past the treatment 

 of human beings has attracted verj'- much more 

 attention, and has therefore advanced more both 



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