Chap. 297.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 11 of an act approved
March 18, 1912, entitled an act to reguiate the practice of medicine and
surgery in the State of Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts
of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the
Code of Virginia, in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an
act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in
the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744,
1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1887, and all amendments thereto. (S. B. 114.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eleven of an act approved March thirteen, nineteen hundred
and twelve, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and
surgery in the State of Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of
acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections
of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions thereof, es:
pecially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine
and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February twenty-
second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and sections seventeen
hundred and forty-four, seventeen hundred and forty-five, seven:
teen hundred and forty-six, seventeen hundred and forty-seven,
seventeen hundred and forty-eight, seventeen hundred and _forty-
nine, seventeen hundred and fifty, seventeen hundred and fifty-one
and seventeen hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Virginia of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all amendments thereto,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 11. Exemptions from examinations: exceptions.—Nothing
in this act shall be construed to affect commissioner or contract
medical officers serving in the United States army, navy, or public
health and. marine hospital service, while so commissioned and in
the performance of their duties, but such shall not engage in
private practice without license from the board of ‘medical ex-
aminers of the State; or to affect any person while actually serving
without salary or professional fees on the resident medical staff
of any legally incorporated hospital; or any legally registered
dentist exclusively engaged in practicing dentistry; or any non-
itinerant person or manufacturer who mechanically fits or gells
lenses, artificial eyes, limbs or other apparatus or appliances, or is
engaged in the mechanical examination: of eyes for the purpose of
adjusting spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses;,or any lawfully qualified
practitioner from other States, territories or countries meeting
legally registered practitioners in this State in consultation, but
who do not open offices or appoint. places in this State where patients
may be met or called to be seen; or ‘to limit in any way the manu-
facture or sale of proprietary medicines by licensed druggists in
this State; or to the furnishing of medical assistance in cases of
emergency; or to the domestic administration of family remedies;
or to the practice of the religious tenets of any church in the minis-
tration to the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means without
the use of any drug or material remedy, whether gratuitously or
for compensation; provided sanitary laws are complied with; or to
affect or interfere in any way with the operation of any hospital
now established in this State; or to any person while engaged in
conducting such hospital now established if there be a licensed
practitioner resident and practicing therein; or to any person who
commenced the practice of osteopathy in this State prior to January.
first, nineteen hundred and three; or to any person who commenced
the practice of chiropody in this State prior to January first, nine-
teen hundred and eleven, or to any person who commenced the prac-
tice of chiropractic in this State. prior to January first, nineteen
hundred and thirteen; or to nurses who practice nursing only; or
to masseurs in their particular sphere of labor who publicly repre-
sent themselves as such. This article shall be construed to apply to
persons, not pretending to be physicians, who offer for sale on the
streets or other public places or leave gratuitously at residences,
remedies which they recommend for the healing or curing of dis-
ease. This article shall be construed to repeal all acts or parts of
acts authorizing conferment of any degree in medicine causa honoris
or ad eundem gradum or otherwise than‘on students duly graduated
after satisfactory completion of a preliminary medical course not
less than that required by this article as a condition of license. It
is further provided that graduates of any sectarian school of medi-
cine who profess to practice medicine according to the tenets of said
schools shall fulfill all of the conditions of the board and of the
State board of education, save that they may be exempted from
taking the examination of the regulars on practice of medicine,
materia medica and therapeutics. A license to practice such sec-
tarian school of medicine shall not permit the holder thereof to
administer drugs or practice surgery unless he has qualified himself
so to do by examination before the board, nor shall it permit mem-
kers of such sectarian schoo!s now practicing in this State to per-
form surgery with the use of instruments, unless they satisfy the
board that they have had adequate clinical facilities at their re-
spective colleges of graduation, or by hospital work, to enable them
to perform such operations.

It is further provided that chiropodists shall take the special
examination as provided by the act to regulate chiropody and be
limited in his practice according to the provisions of that act.