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tioners shall have to submit to inspection of the medical Sub-
delegates, and be obliged to produce the titles authorizing them

to practice.
1886, February M. By "el Ministerio de la Gobernacion," the
following Royal Ordinance was published:
"Illustrissimo Senor: The Royal Board of Health has, by rea-
son of complaints from several surgeon dentists, who petition
that only they possessing a legal title, or legally authorized, may
be permitted to practice dentistry, decided as follows:
"Excellentissimo Senor: In session held yesterday, this royal
Council has unanimously approved the resolution, in its first sec-
tions, as follows: The section takes into consideration the com-
plaint brought forth by several surgeon dentists and their request
that only those legally authorized shall be permitted to practice
dentistry. This is not the first time complaints of this kind have
been entered with His Majesty's Government against individuals,
who, ostentatiously assuming titles, without legal validity, not
only practice dentistry, but also by prescribing, interfere with
the practice of medicine and pharmacy.
"In virtue of those protests, the royal ordinance of October
I, 1881, was published, in which it is declared that the present
laws do not recognize the titles of 'Doctor' or 'Licentiate of
Dental Surgery'; that such, conferred by the free establishment
.at this place, known as the ' Colegio Espanol de Dentistas,' do
not possess any official validity; that the only titles authorizing a
person to practice dentistry are, besides the higher academical
titles in medicine, the old titles of 'Surgeon' and 'Practicante/.and
the title of 'Surgeon-Dentist,' created by ' el Ministerio de Fo-
mento,' according to the decree of June 4, 1875.
"A short time afterward (December 16 of the same year)
another royal ordinance revoking the offices of Inspector and
Sub-Inspector of Dentists was published. This ordinance also
declared that the practitioners of dental surgery shall submit to
the inspection of the Medical Sub-Delegates, and be bound to
show them the titles authorizing them to practice. Notwith-
standing those two royal ordinances, the number of persons pub-
licly advertising and calling themselves Licentiates and Doctors
of Dental Surgery has not in the least diminished; to the con-
trary it seems to have become larger in spite of our laws, and
consequently in contempt of those commissioned to enforce
them. Owing to these facts, and the two royal ordinances of