The American Lancet, Volume 15

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Leartus Connor
George S. Davis, Medical Publisher., 1891

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Page 464 - HANDBOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTICS. Including the Physiological Action of Drugs, the Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official and Practical Pharmacy and Minute Directions for Prescription Writing. By...
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Page 188 - ... person so licensed shall move into another county of this state, he or she shall procure from the...
Page 187 - State on the first Tuesday of January, April, July, and October of each year, and such other meetings as said Board may from time to time appoint Five (5) members shall constitute a quorum.
Page 187 - ... obstetrics, diseases of women and children, diseases of the nervous system, diseases of the eye and ear, medical jurisprudence and such other branches as the board shall deem advisable, and present evidence of having attended three courses of lectures of at least six months each...
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Page 187 - Said board shall keep a record of all the proceedings thereof, and also a record or register of all applicants for a license, together with his or her age, time spent in the study of medicine, and the name and locations of all institutions granting to such applicants degrees or certificates of lectures in medicine or surgery.

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