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ATTEMPTS TO CONTROLL THE
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
For a time
the Legislature of Ohio, largely through the
influence of Dr. S. P. Hildreth, attempted to
control the practice of medicine and to prescribe
definite rules which should prevent unqualified
persons from professing to be physicians. The
following notices of different dates will show the
workings of this law. After a time the
Legislature found that in the warring schools of
medicine it was as difficult to establish a school
of one particular kind and exclude all other sects,
hence the well-meant laws for regulating the
practice of medicine were repealed.
1818 -
MEDICAL NOTICE.
Candidates
for the practice of medicine and surgery are to be
examined in Marietta, Nov. 5th by the following
Censors: Drs. C. F. Perkins, J. B. Reignier,
S. P. Hildreth, J. Safford, J. Cotton, and C.
Bierce.
A
few weeks later it was announced that licenses had
been granted to Giles B. Hempstead, Ebenezer
Bowen, Charles Ulmer, and Alexander McMillan.
THE TWELFTH MEDICAL SOCIETY.
1824 -
A law was passed at the last session of the General
Assembly (1823-4) to incorporate are medical
societies. The members from Washington County
to the Twelfth Medical District (Washington, Athens,
Gallia, and Meigs counties) were Drs. John Cotton
and S. P. Hildreth.
The Twelfth Medical Society of Ohio, which included
Washington, Athens, Gallia, and Meigs counties, of
which Dr. John Cotton was president, imposed
these conditions upon the candidates in medicine,
who were to present themselves at Reno's Tavern,
Nov. 30, 1824.
1st. The Candidate shall have
such an acquaintance with the Latin and Greek
languages as is necessary for a Medical or Surgical
education.
2d.
He shall have studied three full years under the
direction, and have attended the practice of some
respectable Physician or Physicians, Surgeon or
Surgeons, as the case may be, during which time he
shall have studied attentively the most approved
authors in Anatomy, Chemistry, Materia Medica,
Surgery, Obstetrics, and the Theory & Practice of
Medicine, provided, however, that if such Candidate
shall have received a degree from any regular
Collegiate Institution, within the United States, or
elsewhere, he shall be required to study only two
years.
After
examination, a Dissertation or Thesis on some
medical subject will be required of the Candidate to
be read before the society.
COLUMBUS, BIERCE, Sec'y.
November, 1st, 1824.
"MEDICO CHIRUGICAL."
Waterford,
Ohio, June 1, 1827. -
"At the Fourth Annual Meeting of the 12th Medical
Society of Ohio, holden in Chester, in the county of
Meigs, on Tuesday, 29th May, 1827, the following
business was transacted, viz.:
Doctor
John Cotton, President
Columbus Bierce, Vice-President,
Ebenezer Bowen, Secretary
S. P. Hildreth, Treasurer.
Censors.
Ebenezer
Bowen
S. P. Hildreth
George N. Gilbert.
Columbus Bierce.
Eli Seigler
"Dr.
John Cotton, was elected a Delegate to represent
said Society in the General Representative
Convention, to be holden in the town of Columbus, on
the 2nd Monday of December, 1827.
"Dr. Abel J. Phelps was examined, approved of,
and licensed to practice Physic and Surgery, in
conformity to law within this State.
"William Thompson, of Alexander, in the county
of Athens, was elected to receive gratuitous
instruction at the Medical College of Ohio, at the
ensuing session.
"The regular Physicians and Surgeons, authorized by law
within this district, to practice, are Doctors
John Cotton, S. P. Hildreth, Morris German, Ebenezer
Bowen, Seth Hart, and George N. Gilbert,
in Washington County.
"Drs. Chauncey F. Perkins, Columbus Bierce, Lewis
Wolfley, Allen V. Medbery, and Bildad Curtis,
of Athens County.
"Doctors James S. Hibbard, Fenn Robinson, Eli
Seigler, and Abel J. Phelps of Meigs
County, and
"Doctors Nathan A. McIntosh, Zatu
Cushing, and Felix Regnier, of Gallia
County, and
Eliphaz Perkins, Ezra Walker, Ethan Stone, and
Fuller Elliott, honorary members.
"Attest,
EBENEZER BOWEN,
"Secretary."
- Personal Sketches
JABEZ TRUE
DR. SOLOMON DROWN
DR.. THOMAS FARLEY
DR. WILLIAM PITT PUTNAM
DR. JOSIAH HART
DR. WILLIAM B. LEONARD
DR. JOHN BAPTISTE REGNIER
DR. NATHAN McINTOSH
DR. ROBERT WLALACE
DR. SAMUEL P. HILDRETH (will
be transcribed upon request)
DR. JOHN COTTON
DR. JONAS MOORE
DR. G. M. P. HEMPSTEAD
DR. MORRIS GERMAN
DR. FELIX REGNIER
DR. SHUBEL FULLER
DR. HUGH TREVOR
DR. G. J. STEVENS
DR. WILSON STANLEY
DR. GEORGE O. HILDRETH
DR. JOSIAH DEXTER COTTON
DR. Z. D. WALTER
DR. H. N. CURTIS
DR. SETH HART
DR. SAM HART
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