Download or read book Address Delivered Before the New York County Medical Society: January 29, 1861 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Daggett Bulkley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the New York County Medical Society: January 29, 1861 It was not until the year 1844 that all restraints were removed from the practice of physio and surgery in our State, and the necessity of either education, degree, or license, swept off with one fell swoop. Ao cording to that act, no person shall be liable to any criminal prosecution, or to indictment, for practising physic or surgery without a license, except in cases of mal-practice, or gross ignorance, or immoral conduct in such practice. The immediate effect of this law was to disgust some, and discourage others, while the majority of those who commenced practice subse quently to the passage of that act availed themselves of the freedom from all restraint which it afforded them, and neglected to avail themselves of the rights and privileges which a connection with this society would have given them. While, therefore, but very few recruits have replenished our ranks, constantly being thinned by removals from the city, and still more by the ever busy hand of death, our list now embraces but a comparatively small portion of those now engaged in the active duties of our calling, and numbers not more than one quarter of what it did in 1843, with probably double the number of educated practitioners in our city at the present time. 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.