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Show How to Get Rid of a Quack. Editor Times: The reformatory measures soon to be adopted in regulating the practice prac-tice of medicine in this territory is materializing, material-izing, the executive board of medical examiners exam-iners being recently appointed by the governor. The public and the profession are equally interested and naturally look for a speedy and wise adjustments by this hoard in matters mat-ters so essentially vital to the interests of both. Let it, however, be remembered, as past experience has fully demonstrated, that in many of the states, where an efficient board has been in operation for a length of time, that even here a total suppression of au illegal practice of medicine has never been fully accomplished, and that only under tho immediate wing of the board in the city, where such a board snt, has there been any visible abatement in the practice of medicine by the unlicensed. The strictest strict-est vigilance and the most untiring efforts on the part of the .board, together with a determination to mete out to the convicted the full punishment for the violation of this act are of course requisite, but have never been per se instrumental in materially lessening lessen-ing the evil which the legislative act is intended in-tended to remedy. And why? Because in all instances conviction with the necessary accompaniment ac-companiment of evidences tnd proofs are requisite in order to establish the fact that an offense against the law has been committed, com-mitted, and if not forthcoming, there is in the eyes of the law no transgression, while the oileuder, though conscious of violation, finds in this a renewed stimulus and encouragement en-couragement to continue as before to violate the law. Take in connection with this the fact that in the practice of medicine especially there can be found numerous secret se-cret avenues which offer a comparatively safe protection against detection, except done openly and defiantly, which thus needs no other proofs. The board has then not so much to deal with an open defiance of the law as with those who under a safe cover find an opportunity to violate this act secretly. se-cretly. Tuat the present board of medical examiners, be it ever so wide awake, can alone successfully cope with these diflicul-ties diflicul-ties is impossible here as elsewhere. Only with the co-operation of the regular profession profes-sion in the territory can it expect to check an evil which in this and other territories, where no legislative preventives have been offered, has grown into a calamity. As a board of medical examiners as a whole, the one lately appointed will no doubt prove satisfactory to'tlie majority of i the profession. With the co-operation of the entire fraternity and with tLe requisite delicate tact, discernment, justice and executive ex-ecutive ability, a satisfactory adjustment of matters relating to the regulation of prac-. prac-. tic of medicine can be accomplished, but in no other way. A. Bjouxsos, M. D. Salt Lake City, October 1, |