Editorial February 23, 1907 Issue

DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS."

Archibald McLellan

THE following editorial, which we copy from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, refers to a bill now pending Missouri Legislature, and it discloses the animus of certain attempts to enact laws, ostensibly in behalf of the public, but really for the benefit of a favored class. The Post Dispatch says,—

Senate bill No. 123, which has passed the Senate and is now pending in the House, is not properly designated in its title. The bill was drawn and is being pushed by members of the medical fraternity, and purports to be an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery. It should be designated a bill to invest physicians of certain schools of medicine with the privilege of monopolizing all the fees.

The bill not only prohibits the practice of medicine and surgery without a license, which is to be given by the State Board of Health only to graduates of recognized medical schools who stand an examination, but prohibits the treating of the sick or afflicted by any one without such a license—that is, for fees—it expressly permits the gratuitous treatment of the afflicted by any person.

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