Bohannon

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the sustaining of defendants’ general demurrer to the amended complaint.

The principal point presented in the court below was as to the constitutionality of the amendment to the statute in relation to the practice of medicine upon which the plaintiff bases his claim that it is the duty of the defendants, as the Board of Medical Examiners, to issue to him a certificate authorizing him to practice a special branch of medicine and surgery.

The amendment referred to is chapter 740 of the Statutes of 1911, approved May 1, 1911, which amends that certain act for the regulation of the practice of medicine, surgery, etc., approved March 14, 1907, [Stats. 1907, p. 252], as amended by an act approved March 19, 1909, [Stats. 1909, p. 418], and more particularly amending section 6 of said act of 1907, and refers to the qualifications necessary for obtaining a certificate entitling the holder to practice medicine and surgery in the state of California. Said amendment provides in substance that the medical examiners may issue a certificate to any person who has practiced a special branch of medicine and surgery, at the time the act goes in…