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Show before from the very same medical school that our friend had graduated from some fifteen years later, and in addition had a certificate from one of the faculty of tbe college that the quack stood No. 3 out of a class of forty students, which shows that we cannot always, sometimes, most generally tell. The pending bill before the Legislature tells who may practice medicine. It seems to be a sort of compromise bill. Every school of healing that has a large constituency seems to have received favorable notice in it. Looking it over, one wonders won-ders instinctively, if all the rest are left out. how much the rejected ones can affect the business of the regidar professionals. Hut we suggest to the Legislature that, before passing the bill, they submit it to some first-class lawyer, like the City Attorney of Salt Lake City, for instance, for an opinion as to whether the bill as drafted does not smack a little too much of class legislation to stand the Constitutional test. It is useless to pass a law that on the first test would be declared unconstitutional by the courts. THAT PROPOSED MEDICAL LAW. j The physicians and surgeons of I 'tab hf iee.; trving for marn years to pass a la w that wmiM -idude Iron) practice all but graduates tioin S"mr reputable school of medicine I p to date thev have not succeeded to their own satisfaction, often ludicrous lu-dicrous results have bee experienced. One of our eminent physicians and surgeons was greally interested in-terested in a bill of the kind sonic ears ago. and be explained to his friends that the chi.f incentive was to down a certain uua.-k lhat was violating all the ethics nt his profession by his maiiear of advertising. ad-vertising. ' Well, the lull became a law. and our mter.-fted friend was sure that his hour of triumph had conic. So the ipiaek vs sought nut :i in 1 asked to show his authoritv fur practicing medicine. He prnmptl.v produced hib diploniii, issued some twenty-five cars |