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Show GUILTY, BUT ONLY TECHNICALLY. The Uueer Trial of a Female Physician In a Philadelphia Court. About eight years ago the Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill, which was signed by tho governor and became a law, prescribing that all practicing physicians phy-sicians should be registered with the protbonotary., A violation of this law is punishable by line or imprisonment, impris-onment, but there have been few prosecutions. pros-ecutions. Consequently when, In October, an arrest was made it created quite a nn mart Baldwin, stir in medical circle?, cir-cle?, and interest was added by the fact that the accused was a woman. Dr. Mary Baldwin, according to her own story, graduated from the Eclectic college in Netr York In 1878, and her certificate was registered iu New York city two years later. Afterwards she practiced in various parts of New York state and iu New Jersey, where her certificate was registered in the county of Essex. She went to the Women's Homeo- patbic hospital in Philadelphia in September, 1889, where she was employed em-ployed simply In t he dispensary. She took her diploma to a Dr. Thomas, as directed, and left it, with $5, with him. The diploma was to be presented to the faculty before be-fore registration. There was a long delay, and finally she was told that shemustgo through a college examina- DK. I.UCT BD8ENBARK. thought this unjust, for she had left college twelve years before. Various people examined her in anatomy and other branches of medical science, and she was undergoing an examination examina-tion in surgery when she was arrested. The arrest was made at the instance of Dr. Lucy Busenbark. Dr. Baldwin asserted on the witness stand that the board of mauagers knew that she was not registered. She had only treated a few poor patients at the dis-ensaryand dis-ensaryand those on the outside who we: e too ill to go there. After tedious argument it was decided by the judge that Dr. Baldwin was guilty, but only techutcally. She had made no effort to evade the law, and sentence was suspended. |