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able where the adjoining state either has no law 

 regulating practice, or where its regulation is 

 inefficient. Otherwise, those unable to get a 

 license, but desiring to practice within the state 

 would simply take up their residence in the adjoin- 

 ing territory, and practice from that point of van- 

 tage. 



35. Certificate in the Place of License. In Ger- 

 many any one may practice medicine, without a 

 license, but he is forbidden to assume the title of 

 "doctor" or of "physician," unless he shall have 

 passed an examination and received a certificate.^^^ 

 A somewhat similar suggestion has been made in 

 this country by the attorney of the state board 

 in Wisconsin relative to the practice of medicine 

 among human beings, because of the complications 

 caused by the drugless methods of treatment. His 

 suggestion was that practice be free, but that the 

 board issue certificates to the effect that the hold- 

 ers show a certain degree of proficiency in the 

 science. Fortunately, the character of veterinary 

 medicine is such as to exclude from consideration 

 the need for such a distinction. Animals are not 

 likely to be subjected to mental healing. 



36. License by Reciprocity. Although vari- 

 ously worded, many of the statutes regnilating the 

 practice of medicine require that the candidates 

 shall be personally examined by the members of 

 the examining board. This imposes upon them a 

 service to be exercised with discretion. It is pre- 

 sumed that the members of the board have been 

 selected with regard to their fitness to pass judg- 



27 Meyer Verwaltungsrecht, 

 79. 



