NEWYORK (STATE) 
LaWS RELATING TO 
PHYSIC AND SURGERY JVew- York, JVb®. 2, 1829. 
Thk following laws enacted by the Legislature of this State, and at 
present in force, are published for the benefit of Students. See Revised 
Laws, Chap. xiv. 
“No person shall practise physic or surgery, unless he shall have 
received a license or diploma for that purpose, from one of the incorpo- 
rated medical societies in this stale, or the degree of doctor of medicine 
from the regents of the university ;* or shall have been duly authorized 
to practise by the laws of some other state or country, and have a 
diploma from some incorporated college of medicine, or legally incor- 
porated medical society, in such state or country.”f 
“ The degree of doctor of medicine conferred by any college in this 
state, shall not he a license to practice physic or surgery, nor shall any 
college have or institute a medical faculty to teach the science of medicine 
m any other place than where the charier locates the college 
“ Every person not authorized by law, who for any fee or reward 
shall practise physic or surgery within this state, shall be incapable of 
recovering by suit, any debt arising from such practice, and shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, 
or both, in the discretion of the court by which he shall be convicted.” 
The de grees in the College of Physicians and Surgeons are conferred by the Regents. 
t Under this law the County Medical Society of this city has already acted, and decided 
hoenses and diplomas obtained in any other way to be illegal. 
+ To enforce this act, the Attorney General of the State has commenced proceedings be- 
rore the Supreme Court against Geneva College, for the purpose of severing the connection at 
present existing between that college and the medical branch (Rutgers College) in this city. 
* 'lo caso will be decided probably in the January term of the Supreme Court.