Fees.—To secretary of board, for examining genuine diploma, $5.
If diploma fraudulent or property of another, $20 (Act 1877-78, c. 576, s. 3; amending Act 1875-76, c. 518, s. 4).
To county clerk, for recording certificate, usual recording fees (Act 1875-76, c. 518, s. 6).
Colorado.
Board of Examiners.—The State board of medical examiners is composed of nine practising physicians of known ability and integrity, graduates of medical schools of undoubted respectability, six of the regular school, two of the homœopathic, and one of the eclectic school or system, appointed by the governor (Mills’ “Annotated Statutes” 1891, s. 3,547).
Qualification.—Every person practising medicine must possess the required qualifications. If a graduate in medicine, he must present his diploma to the State board of medical examiners for verification, or furnish other evidence conclusive of his being a graduate of a legally chartered medical school in good standing. The board issues its certificate, and such diploma or evidence and certificate are conclusive. If not a graduate of a legally chartered medical school in good standing, the person must present himself before the board for examination. All persons who have made the practice of medicine and surgery their profession or business continuously for ten years, and can furnish satisfactory evidence thereof to the State medical examiners, shall receive a license to continue (ib., s. 3,550).
Examinations of persons not graduates are made by the State board, wholly or partly in writing, in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pathology, surgery, obstetrics, and practice of medicine (exclusive of materia medica and therapeutics) (ib., s. 3,553).
The holder of a certificate should have it recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides, and the record indorsed thereon, and on removing to another county to practise should procure an indorsement to that effect on the certificate from the county clerk, and record this certificate in the county to which he removes (ib., s. 3,554).
The board may refuse certificates to persons convicted of conduct of criminal nature; and may revoke certificates for like cause (ib., s. 3,356).
Definition.—Professing publicly to be a physician and prescribe for the sick, or attaching to name “M.D.,” or “surgeon” or “doctor” in a medical sense, is regarded as practising medicine. Gratuitous services in case of emergency are not prohibited (ib., s. 3,557).