MEDICAL CERTIFICATES
DOCTORS, DENTISTS, OPTOMETRY, CHIROPRATORS, & MISC.
FOR REFERENCE:
Although people were practicing Medicine and Dentistry from the
time before California became a state, when these regulating
Boards of Examiners were created, existing practioners were
required to register and show that they were competent:
The regulations of the Medical Society of the State of
California were approved
April 3, 1876; amended April 1, 1878 The Board of Examiners of
the Medical Society of Homeopathic Practitioners,
followed the same regulations The Board of Examiners of the
Eclectic Medical Society, also followed the same
regulations
The State Board of Dental Examiners
regulations were approved March 12, 1885
The State Board of Optometry was created in
1903; amended June 16, 1913 ?
The State Board of Pharmacy was created March
15, 1901 (although I found one
place that said March 11, 1891)
The State Board of Examiners of
Naturopathic Physicians regulations were
approved March 14, 1907; amended March
19,1909
The State Board of Osteopathic
Examiners was created ?
The State Board of Chiropractic
Examiners was created ?
The Midwife was licensed from the
certificate from the Illinois State
Board of Health
In some cases the Dental
Certificates stated "D.D.S.", but
some didn't
Sometimes there was no M. D.
after the Physician's name.
Possibly means
something; possibly an
oversight by the County Clerk.