2. For any attempt to subvert the objects or injure the reputation
of the Society.
3. For advertising, publicly vending, or pretending to the
knowledge and use of any secret nostrum.
4. For furnishing to any person, or presenting in his own behalf,
a false certificate of character and studies as a student of
medicine, tending to deceive the public, or the Censors of the Society.
5. For habitually furnishing advice or holding professional
consultations with persons who practice medicine without the
necessary acquirements to entitle them to the respect, confidence or
courtesy of the members of the Society.
XXII. As the object of the Society is to improve the science of
medicine, to increase the influence and usefulness of its members,
and to secure greater harmony and friendship among them, therefore it
is of the highest importance that each member should so conduct
himself, both in his private and professional life, as to command the
entire respect of his colleagues.
Every person who becomes a member is understood to take upon himself
an obligation to communicate to the Society any discoveries he shall
have made relating to the science of medicine or surgery, and to co-
operate in such measures as my be adopted by the Society for the
advancement of these sciences; and, on his refusal to do so, he shall
be subject to such censure as the Society, by a two-thirds vote,
shall inflict.
XXIII. Every member of the Society shall be assessed annually three
dollars ($3), and such other assessments as a majority of the
members, at any legal meeting, may determine.
DELEGATES.
XXIV. The Executive Committee may appoint delegates to other
Societies and Associations whenever they deem it advisable to do so;
and such delegates shall receive certificates of appointment from the
recording Secretary.
Accredited delegates from other Societies and Associations shall be
allowed to participate in the scientific deliberations of this Society.
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY.
XXV. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second
Wednesday of April, and the semi-annual meeting on the second
Wednesday of October, at ten o'clock, A.M., in such one of the cities
or towns of the Commonwealth as the Executive Committee may
determine. A special meeting of the Society shall be called by the
President, on the written request of ten members, stating the object
of said meeting.
MEETINGS OF THE E
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