Excerpt from Doctor in Medicine and Other Papers on Professional Subjects Itself for the Consideration of the medical profession of this country, on the solution of which will depend its character at home and its position abroad, Viz., By what title shall a practitioner of legitimate medicine be recognized? What shall constitute a Doctor in Medicine? Hitherto it has been deemed sufficient that an applicant for admission to a regularly organized society should present credentials showing him to be a graduate of a chartered medical college, or a licentiate of a County or State medical society. But the ease with which charters are now obtained from State Legislatures for every nondescript association of men, whether for proper or improper purposes, has effectually broken down these safeguards to respectability, and thrown widely Open the field of medicine to every one who desires to enter and profit thereby. With the single and most hon orable exception of the State of North Carolina, we are not aware that any State has laws protect ing the domain of scientific medicine from the intrusion of lawless adventurers. It will ever redound to the honor of the old North State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.