Qualification.—It is unlawful to practise medicine or surgery without a license (Laws 1887, vol. 18, c. 35, s. 1, as amended by Laws 1889, vol. 18, c. 518).
The medical board of examiners for the State must grant a license to any person applying therefor who shall produce a diploma from a respectable medical college, or shall, upon full and impartial examination, be found qualified for such practice (Rev. Stats., c. 47, s. 3). The board consists of as many fellows of the Medical Society of Delaware as the society deems proper (ib., s. 3).
The clerk of the peace of a county, on presentation of a license issued by the board of examiners of the Homœopathic Medical Society of Delaware State and Peninsula, under its corporate seal, signed by its president and countersigned by its secretary, or of the license provided by sec. 3, c. 47, of the Revised Statutes, or on the affidavit of a person that he or she has practised medicine or surgery for eight years continuously in the State, and upon such person registering his name, the date of his graduation and college (if a graduate), and his place of intended residence, must issue a license (ib., s. 2).
A person opening a transient office or assigning a transient office by printed or written advertisement, must comply with the foregoing provisions and pay special license fee for a license good only for one year (Laws 1887, vol. 18, c. 35, s. 5).
Penalty.—The violation of this law is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $100 to $300 (ib., s. 7).
Exceptions.—The present law exempts those who complied with the Act of April 19th, 1883, and also regular practitioners of another State in consultation with a lawful practitioner of medicine and surgery of this State (ib., s. 4, 6).
Fees.—To clerk of the peace, for issuing license to practise, $10.50 (Laws 1887, vol. 18, c. 35, s. 4). For issuing annual license for revenue of the State, $10.50 (Laws, vol. 13, c. 117, as amended, vol. 14, c. 16).
To secretary of board, for license, $10 (Rev. Stats., c. 47, s. 5).
A license fee to practise medicine, for the revenue of the State, is also required (ib., s. 8; vol. 13, c. 117, as amended, vol. 14, Laws, c. 16).