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. tice of Veterinary Med- 
§ 35. Certificate in the Place of icine 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 very much more 
attention, and has therefore advanced more both 
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