THE NEED OF A MEDICAL FACULTY IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE STATE UNIVERSITY. 
ARTHUR J. PULS, M. D. 
The medical laws in the state of Wisconsin show the follow¬ 
ing defects: 
1st: The laws that regulate the practice of medicine are in¬ 
efficient. 
2d: The same is true of the laws that regulate the granting 
of charters to medical institutions. 
3d: These laws do not provide for the appointment of a med¬ 
ical examining board. 
4th: They do not provide for a medical faculty in connection 
with the University of Wisconsin. 
The only medical law on our statute books is headed “ An act 
to prevent quacks from deceiving the people by assuming a pro¬ 
fessional title. ” This law provides that the state or any county 
medical society may issue diplomas and grant licenses to prac¬ 
tice medicine. Furthermore, the law allows any three adult 
persons, who have duly signed and filed articles of incorpora¬ 
tion, to establish a medical society or school, giving with it 
the power to confer the degree of doctor of medicine with 
the privilege to practice medicine in the state of Wisconsin. 
Why is it that the Wisconsin legislators should be opposed to 
medical legislation? Why will they not enact efficient medical 
laws such as exist on the statute books of our neighbor 
states? Simply because we have no state medical faculty nor 
medical department in connection with our state institutions. 
About thirty states of the union possess stringent medical laws 
and fourteen states have medical colleges in connection with 
their state universities. 
