printed Transactions.

No member in arrears shall be entitled to the printed publications, or to exercise any right of membership.

ARTICLE III.-ETHICS.

SEC. 1. The members of this Association shall exercise toward each other, toward all physicians, Eclectics especially, and toward all mankind, that courtesy and just dealing to which every one in his legitimate sphere is entitled, and any departure therefrom shall be deemed unprofessional, undignified and unworthy the honorable practitioner of an honorable profession. It shall also be regarded as unbecoming to engage in any form of practice, or of advertising, which shall tend to lower the physician in the esteem of the community, or to reflect discredit upon his professional associates.

SEC. 2. While it is the undoubted right of every physician to present himself before the public in an honorable manner, and to state that he makes a specialty of any particular disease, no member of this Association shall advertise himself by handbills, circulars, publication of certificates of cures, or any such means; nor associate himself in business professionally with any one so doing; nor advertise himself as belonging to this Association, or any auxiliary medical society, or any medical college. Any member knowing of any violation of this provision by members of this Association, or of any person not a member of this Association or any auxiliary medical society, advertising himself as such, shall inform the Executive Committee of the matter, with all the facts in his possession; and it shall be the duty of the Executive Committee thereupon to publish the facts in some public journal circnlating in the region where such offense has been committed.

ARTICLE IV.-DISCIPLINE OF MEMBERS.

SEC. 1. Any member may be officially censured, invited to withdraw, or expelled from membership, for improper conduct, or a violation of professional comity. But it shall be necessary for a specific charge to be made in writing, and a copy to be presented to the person accused or some person acting in his behalf, and another placed in the hands of the President or Secretary one month before the time of holding a regular meeting.

SEC. 2. All professors or officers of colleges voting and otherwise co-operating in the conferring of the degree of Doctor of Medicine on any person not duly entitled to the same by the necessary attendance on medical lectures and thorough examinations, shall be considered as liable to the penalties enumerated in this article.

ARTICLE V.-QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.

Medical colleges in good standing with this Association shall require that each and every candidate for graduation shall be twenty-one years of age, and have pursued the study of medicine for three years under the supervision of a reputable physician or in a reputable medical college, and have attended at least two full terms of instruction of at least five months' duration, with an interval of five months, the last of which shall have been in the college conferring the degree.

ARTICLE VI,-ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

SEC. 1. At every annual meeting of this Association, upon the third day of the session, there shall be an Electoral Committee chosen by the members and delegates, as follows: Every State represented in the Association shall be entitled to two votes, and every medical college recognized by this Association to one vote in the said committee; and a majority of the Electoral Committee having convened and duly organized, shall elect the officers of the Association.

SEC. 2. This committee may also propose the next place of meeting, but the naming of the same shall be subject to the approval of the Association.

ARTICLE VII.—QUORUM.

SEC. 1. Fifteen members at any regular meeting shall constitute a lawful number to transact business, but a smaller number may receive reports.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of members desiring to leave before final adjournment, to communicate the fact to the President.

ARTICLE VIII.-SURRENDER OF MEMBERSHIP.

Omission to give notice of residence to the Secretary, or to

pay annual dues for two years, shall be equivalent to a surrender of membership; but such persons may be restored to full right on payment of all arrearages.

ARTICLE IX.-ORDER OF BUSINESS.

1. Ascertaining the presence of a quorum. 2. Calling the roll of Officers.

3. Receiving the names of delegates and propositions for membership, and referring them, and credentials, to the Committee on Credentials.

4. Reports of Officers.

5. Reports of Committees, which shall always be in order when no other business is in progress.

6. Reception of papers by title. It shall, however, be in order, when no other business is before the Association, to read any such paper and discuss the subject of which it treats. Miscellaneous business.

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ARTICLE X.-PUBLICATION OF TRANSACTIONS.

No report or paper presented to this Association as herein provided, shall be excluded from the printed volume of Transactions except for the following reasons:

1. Imperfect preparation.

2. Indecorum of language.

3. Unfriendly expression toward the Association.

4. Want of importance, or of pertinency to the subjects within the province of the Association.

5. Insufficient means in the possession of the Treasurer to liquidate expense of publication.

All papers read or submitted to the Association are its property, and shall be deposited with the Secretary within thirty days; or else they shall not be acknowledged except by express vote or authorization, in any journal of proceedings. But this Association is not to be regarded as approving unqualifiedly, or sanctioning to their full extent, the several doctrines and sentiments set forth in the papers thus presented and published by its direction.

The Secretary of this Association shall be editor of its publications, ex-officio, subject to the supervision of the President and Treasurer, and shall be entitled to repayment of all necessary expenses actually incurred, travelling expenses to and from meetings, and such additional amount as the Association shall consider his due.

STANDING RESOLUTIONS.

[The Secretary has generally omitted from this category all resolutions which have, subsequent to their adoption, been incorporated into the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association, or virtually suspended by others of a similar tenor.]

ANNUAL MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS.

Resolved, That in future the annual meetings of this Association be held for three days, that the election of officers shall take place on the third day, and that the By-Laws of this Association be and the same are hereby amended to that effect. -Adopted June 19, 1879.

Resolved, That the forenoon of the second day's session of the National Eclectic Medical Association shall be set aside and devoted exclusively to the discussion of Medical and Surgical Clinical Cases, and that no speaker shall occupy more than fifteen minutes on any one case.--Adopted June 18, 1880.

SECTIONS.

Resolved, That sections be constituted for the various de partments of Medical Science, with Chairman and Secretary, to be appointed or elected at each annual meeting.-Adopted June 18, 1880.

BUREAU OF ELECTRICITY.

Resolved, That a Bureau of Electricity be established, and constitute henceforth a Standing Committee of this Association.-Adopted June 18, 1879.

*At the annual meeting of 1879, at Cleveland, the following resolution was referred to the Executive Committee, with power to establish it as the order of proceeding, namely:

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

"Resolved, That the Order of Business in the National Eclectic Medical Association shall be as follows:

"The first day shall be devoted to Education and Cases in Practice. "The second day to Legislation.

"The third day to the Election of Officers, and such other business as shall legally come before it."

BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE.

Resolved, That a National Bureau of Correspondence be appointed by the President of this Association, consisting of at least one member from each State Society, and one from each of the other States, friendly to the purposes of this resolution, to continue in existence one year and till another similar Bureau shall in like manner be appointed, to prepare and circulate memorials, and cause them to be presented to Congress for legislative proceeding, that in the Federal Government, whether in the Army, Navy, Pension Bureau or elsewhere, each School of Medicine shall receive equal favor, and that they shall be awarded a just and equable proportion of representation in all boards of administration, examination and analogous position, without being exposed to proscription or rejection on any pretext based on any so-called Code of Ethics.— Adopted June 29, 1876.

Resolved, That the Bureau of Correspondence be continued, with authority to appoint a Sub-Committee, the duty of which shall be to prepare a report in the name of this Association to the National Bureau of Education.-Adopted June 19, 1878; also, June 19, 1879.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE.

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed, consisting of five members of this Association, on the Nomenclature of Diseases, whose duty it shall be to make a report annually to this Association.-Adopted June 17, 1880.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON LOCATIONS FOR PHYSICIANS.

Resolved, That a Committee on Location be appointed by the Chair to obtain information in regard to desirable locations for physicians, and to correspond with any who may desire to change their location.-Adopted October 5, 1871.

COMMITTEE ON PHARMACOPIA.

Resolved, That a committee of five physicians, not pecuniarily interested in any manufactory of medicinal preparations, and to be known as the "Committee on Pharmacopoeia," be appointed annually by this body, and shall perform the following duties:

1. To confer and correspond with leading manufacturers as to the best forms in which to prepare remedies for use, and as