which
is a part of medicine. After this, and not before, will he be given
the license to practice, provided he has passed an examination in
legal form as well as obtained a certificate from his teacher as to
his {421} studies in the preceding time. After having spent five
years in study, he shall not practice medicine until he has during a
full year devoted himself to medical practise with the advice and
under the direction of an experienced physician. In the medical
schools the professors shall during these five years devote
themselves to the recognized books, both those of Hippocrates as
well as those of Galen, and shall teach not only theoretic, but also
practical medicine.

"We also decree, as a measure intended for the furtherance of Public
Health, that no surgeon shall be allowed to practice, unless he has
a written certificate, which he must present to the professor in the
medical faculty, stating that he has spent at least a year at that
part of medicine which is necessary as a guide to the practice of
surgery, and that, above all, he has learned the anatomy of the
human body at the medical school, and is fully equipped in this
department of medicine, without which neither operations of any kind
can be undertaken with success nor fractures be properly treated.

"In every province of our Kingdom which is under our legal
authority, we decree that two prudent and trustworthy men, whose
names must be sent to our court, shall be appointed and bound by a
formal oath, under whose inspection electuaries and syrups and other
medicines be prepared according to law and only be sold after such
inspection. In Salerno in particular, we decree that this
inspectorship shall be limited to those who have taken their degrees
as Masters in Physic.

"We also decree by the present law, that no one in the Kingdom,
except in Salerno or in Naples (in which were the two universities
of the Kingdom), shall undertake to give lectures on medicine or
surgery, or presume to assume the name of teacher, unless he shall
have been very thoroughly examined in the presence of a Government
official and of a professor in the art of medicine.

"Every physician given a license to practice must take an oath that
he shall faithfully fulfil all the requirements of the law, and in
addition, whenever it comes to his knowledge that any apothecary has
for sale drugs that are of