Medicine: New Health Laws

¶ In South Carolina a bill requiring medical examination of male applicants for marriage licenses, ten days prior to the date set for the marriage ceremony, passed the House.

¶ Iowa voted down two bills: one to prevent the use of the word physician by osteopaths, chiropractors and other cultists; the other limiting each druggist to the handling of 25 gallons of liquor per year.

¶ The Ways and Means Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives reported favorably a bill prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the manufacture of heroin. Most of...

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