The act of incorporation, together with the medical police, by-laws and rules, of the Rhode-Island Medical Society.

  • Rhode Island Medical Society.
Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The act of incorporation, together with the medical police, by-laws and rules, of the Rhode-Island Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sec. 4. Assessment. Every fellow of this Society shall annually con¬ tribute one dollar to the funds of the Society, and shall pay the same to the Treasurer thereof, and no fellow shall be allowed the loan of any book or other article belonging to the Society, nor be al¬ lowed to vote at any meeting, or hold any office in the gift of the Society, until he shall have made such payment, and subscribed his name to the by¬ law's, or expressed his assent in writing, directed to the Corresponding Secretary. Sec. 5. Resignation. The Society may, for satisfactory reasons, per¬ mit a fellow to resign his fellowship. Sec. 6. Expulsion. No fellow of the Society shall be expelled there¬ from, but by a vote of two-thirds, at least, of the fel¬ lows present, at the annual meeting of the Society. Sec. 7. Consultation. To promote the laudable designs for which the Society was formed and incorporated, to prevent, as far as may be, all unqualified persons from practising medicine or surgery, and in order to discourage empiricism, it shall be deemed disre¬ putable and shall be unlawful for any fellow or licentiate of this Society, in the capacity of either Physician or Surgeon, to advise or consult directly indirectly, with any person whatever, who shall hereafter commence the practice of medicine or surgery within this State, until he shall have been examined and approbated by the Censors of the Society—and any fellow of the Society, who shall assist any person not so qualified, by affording him 2