A Bill for An Act to regulate the Practice of Medicine.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this Act, no physician shall administer to any
one patient, at any one time, more than five pounds of salt, nor more than two gallons of salt water, unless such physician can,
at the time, show a diploma from some medical academy, or legally Constituted Board
of Physicians.
Sec. 2. That no physician shall be allowed to salt, or pickle down, any person alive,
unless he shall have a diploma as aforesaid
Sec. 3. That if any person shall have an aversion to being killed scien^ti^fically, he may have cho^o^se a quack, by whom to be killed.
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1On January 25, 1839, Vital Jarrot in the House of Representatives presented the petition of William G. Goforth, requesting an act to regulate medicine. The House referred the petition to the
Committee on Salines. In response to this petition, Isaac P. Walker of the Committee on Salines introduced HB 215 in the House on January 26. The House
declined to order the bill for a second reading.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 278, 287.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 168, HB 215, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)