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Book Title: Medical Board Of Physicians

ACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA

1847 Vol. 1 Page 234-237

Full Title: AN ACT to establish a Botanico-Medical Board of Physicians in the 
State, and for the better regulation of the Botanic or Thomsonian Practice of 
Medicine.

SECTION 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same.  That from and after the passage of this act, no person 
or persons, except graduates of the Southern Botanico-Medical College, shall be 
allowed to practise physic or surgery on the Botanico or Thomsonian system of 
medicine, or any of the branches thereof, or in any case to prescribe for the 
cure of disease for fee or reward, unless he or they shall have been first 
licensed to do so in the manner hereinaftter prescribed.

SECTIONS 2 – 14 . . . . . . . . . 

SECTION 15. And be it further enacted. That the following gentlemen shall 
constitute the Botanico-Medical Board of Georgia, as contemplated by this act, 
to wit: William Fisher, M.D.,James Buys, M.D., L.C. Quinn, M.D., John T. Coxe, 
M.D., M.S. Bellenger, M.D.., J.Sinclair, M.D., L. Blankston, M.D., James T. 
Ellis, M.D., and J.Bryan.

Charles J. Jenkins,
Speaker of the House of Representatives

ANDREW J. MILLER,
President of the Senate

GEORGE W. TOWNS, Governor

Approval Date: December 24, 1847


Note:  There is more to the law; this is the main subject and people named



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Bob & Linda Ellis Duluth Ga.

From Georgia Legislative Documents


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Dr. J.T. Ellis was from what is now Spalding County Ga.

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