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82 D E X T A L L A W S CONDENSE D. ; ;
certificate is by law recognized as a licentiate or practitioner in
medicine or general surgery."
Section 28 contains provision for conduct of examination by
medical boards, if established.
Section 29 is devoted to evidence of registration.
Section 30 specifies exemption of registered persons from
serving on juries, at inquests, corporate, jjarochial. ward, hundred
and township offices, and from the militia.
The remaining four sections are devoted to: "Exercise of
powers by Privy Council ; penalty on wilful falsification of regis-
ters ; penalty on obtaining registration by false representations
notice of death of practitioners ; provision for certain students
by-laws, services of notices by post and recovery of penalties."
The Medical Act of 1886 refers to dentists specifically in Sec-
tion 26, and refers to modifications or amendments or annulment
of certain provisions afifecting Sections 4, 5. 28 of the Dentists'
Act of 1878.
NOTE.—The foregoing excerpts give the essential facts of the English
law as it now stands. I am informed that new dental legislation is pending.
"Athens, Greece, February 16. 1912.
"In order to practise dentistry in this
Greece, country, it is necessary, if one has not a
diploma from a foreign dental college of
standing, to obtain a diploma from the Univ&rsity of Athens,
which represents a two years' course in dentistry and allied sub-
jects, and to pay a fee of forty drachmas (%y.y2). If one has a
diploma from a reputable foreign college, such as the American
institutions 3'ou mention (Universities of Pennsylvania, Michi-
gan, Iowa, California, Minnesota, Harvard, Vanderbilt. \''alpa-
raiso at Chicago), one is recjuired to pass an examination in den-
tistry before the Board of Health and to pay a fee of four hun-
dred drachmas ($77.20). The examination is conducted in either
the Greek, French or German language.
"After obtaining a license, a dentist is subject to the graded
'professional' tax, which ranges from seventy-nine drachmas
($15.25) to five hundred and forty-seven drachmas ('S105.57) a
year, depending upon the income he receives from the practice of
his profession.
"In regard to possible openings in Greece for American den-
tists, I may say that two excellent English dentists have been
established in Athens for a number of years, who have a consider-
able and paying practice among the class of people whom an
American dentist would naturally look to for his practice.
Whether the field is large enough to support another dentist is
questionable. Outside of the city of Athens, I should think it
unlikely that there is an opening for an American dentist."