2. No attache of a medical college is eligible to a place on the board.
3. All candidates for the practice of medicine in Ohio shall submit to an examination by this board.
4. None but graduates in medicine and surgery shall be eligible to examination.
5. Licenses may be refused or revoked for criminal or dishonorable conduct.
6. Graduates at present practicing in the State may continue without submitting to an examination, but must register in the office of the probate judge.
These are the essential features of the bill, and on the whole good. It does not interfere with physicians already in practice, which has caused the failure of nearly every bill presented to the Ohio Legislature becoming a law. Excluding college professors from becoming members of the board is fair to the profession, and saves the bill from being the tool of the medical colleges, unlike the Pennsylvania law, and yet it does not ignore the medical schools entirely as educational and graduating bodies, like the Illinois and West Virginia laws. It is impracticable, even if desirable, to ignore denominational lines in medical legislation.
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF YOUNG GIRLS.
The following remarks were made by the president of the Royal College of Physicians, December 28, and were the result of an inquiry into the conduct of Dr. Haywood Smith, by the college, for having physically examined the girl, Eliza Armstrong, without the consent of parent or guardian:
"It is, in the opinion of this college, a grave professional and moral offence for any physician to examine physically a young girl, even at the request of a parent, without having first satisfied himself that some decided medical good is likely to accrue to the patient from the examination, and, also, without having first explained to the parent or legal guardian of the girl the advisability of such examination in general and the special objections that exist to their being made. Moreover, the college feels that a young girl should on no consideration be examined, excepting in the presence of a matron of mature age, and, so far as the physician knows, of good moral character...." The rest of the remarks were put direct to Dr. Smith, and are of no general interest.