A guide-book of Boston for physicians . gular or exclusive system. There is an annual meeting and a dinner of the society inthe month of June each year, and the district societies, ofwhich there are eighteen, hold more or less frequent meetingsduring the year, and an annual meeting at least ten days be-fore the meeting of the parent society. The present membership of the society is about three thou-sand. The dues are five dollars a year. The proceedings of thesociety and the annual address are published each year. Mostof the reputable regular physicians of the State are membersof the Massachus
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . gular or exclusive system. There is an annual meeting and a dinner of the society inthe month of June each year, and the district societies, ofwhich there are eighteen, hold more or less frequent meetingsduring the year, and an annual meeting at least ten days be-fore the meeting of the parent society. The present membership of the society is about three thou-sand. The dues are five dollars a year. The proceedings of thesociety and the annual address are published each year. Mostof the reputable regular physicians of the State are membersof the Massachusetts Medical Society. Being a member, how-ever, does not give the right to practise. The Board of Registration in Medicine confers authority topractise medicine in Massachusetts. It is composed of sevenphysicians, each appointed by the Governor, and serving for aperiod of seven years. No member of the board shall belong tothe faculty of any medical college, and no more than threemembers shall at one time be members of any one chartered. 68 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION state medical society. Examinations are held three times a year, and applicants for regis-tration are given certifi-cates if they are found bya majority of the board tobe twenty-one years ofage or over, of good moralcharacter, to have passedthe examinations, whichare wholly or in part inwriting, and to have paida fee of twenty court From the windows of the Medical Library one looks out upon the Fens, a part ofBostons park system, around which it is expected many fineresidences will be built in the not far distant future. Directly across the Fens from the library rises the group ofwhite marble buildings of the Harvard Medical School. Inthe foreground is Fenway Court or the Isabella Stewart GardnerMuseum of Art, which is also the Boston residence of Mrs. John This is built after the style of an Italian palace, andmuch of the material used in its construction was brought fromItaly. The museu
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