Bold

This appeal is taken from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, by which under c&i'tiorari proceedings an order of the Board of Medical Examiners of the State of California revoking the license of appellant to practice medicine and surgery in this state was affirmed.

The appellant had been the holder of a “physician and surgeon certificate ’ authorizing him to practice his profession, issued by the Board of Medical Examiners under the provisions of the “Practice of Medicine Act of 1913”. (See Stats. 1913, p. 722, as amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1931 ed., Act 4807.) Section 14 of that act provides that “Whenever any holder of a certificate herein provided for is guilty of unprofessional conduct, as the same is defined in this act, and the said unprofessional conduct has been brought to the attention of the board granting said certificate, in the manner hereinafter provided ... it shall be the duty of the board and the board shall have power to suspend the right of the holder of said certificate to practice for a period not exceeding one year or to place the holder of said certificate upon probation or suspend judgment in such cases or revoke his certificate, or…