Penalty.—A contract for the services of a physician or surgeon is void unless he has authority to practise; proof of authority is not required at trial except on two days’ notice (ib., s. 1,318).
Practising medicine or surgery without a certificate is a misdemeanor under a penalty of a fine of from $25 to $100. This provision is not applicable to physicians practising medicine in Alabama in 1890, who are graduates of a respectable medical college and have complied with the law by having their diplomas recorded by the judge of probate in the county where they practise; nor to a physician who has practised in the State for the past five years (Act 1890-91, c. 376); nor to women practising midwifery (Code 1887, s. 1,308).
Fees.—The statutory fees are as follows:
To judge of probate, for record of diploma, or license or certificate, $1 (ib., s. 1,298, 1,299, 1,306).
To board of medical examiners, for examination, actual expenses (ib., s. 1,304).
Arizona.
Qualification.—It is unlawful for any person to practise medicine, surgery, or other obstetrics unless he have a diploma regularly issued by a medical college lawfully organized under the laws of the State wherein it is located, or a license issued and authorized by a board of medical examiners under and by virtue of the laws of any State or Territory. The diploma must state that the person named is qualified to practise medicine and surgery in all of its departments (Penal Code, 1887, s. 617, as amended Act of April 11th, 1893).
A diploma granted for moneyed consideration or other article of value alone, or revoked or cancelled by the college by which it was issued or by act of the legislature, is not a sufficient qualification (ib., s. 618).
Every practitioner of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics must register in the county recorder’s office his name, residence, and place of birth, and present his diploma or license, and the county recorder must make a copy of it under the record of his name, residence, and place of birth. The person registering must subscribe and verify an affidavit in writing, annexed to the copy as transcribed, that he is the identical person named in the diploma (ib., s. 619, as amended by Act of April 11th, 1893).