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Society testified on an assisted-suicide bill, citing a "plurality of opinion" on the subject among physicians. The Society changed its stance from being against a patient's right to life-ending medication to “engaged neutrality” in 2019. Speaking on Connecticut's plan to legalize recreational marijuana, the CSMS stated “The rush towards legalization of recreational marijuana ignores how profit-driven corporations hooked generations of Americans on cigarettes and opioids, killing millions and straining public resources. Connecticut has an obligation to protect the health and welfare of its citizens and rushing to legalize a potentially unsafe drug abdicates this responsibility.”
87:. After the Medical Act of 1842, and until 1893, a license was not required to practice medicine in the state. The Society continued to grant licenses until the Medical Practice Act was passed 1893 and the State of Connecticut took on the responsibility. By then, three medical societies had been chartered, the regulars, eclectics, and homeopaths. The Act created licensing boards that represented the interests of each group, and required all practicing physicians to receive a certificate of registration from the State Board of Health.
112:, cooperation with the state medical society was necessary. A committee, chaired by President Dwight, with representatives from both the Connecticut Medical Society and Yale College was formed and made recommendations on the creation of the medical school. After three years of negotiations, in 1810, the Connecticut Legislature passed legislation authorizing the Medical Society to join with Yale College to form the Medical Institution of Yale College, which formally opened in 1813.
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Connecticut's eight counties. The State Medical Society membership consisted of the membership of the combined county societies. County societies were to elect representatives to the state society meetings. Connecticut was the only state with an established hierarchy of state and local societies until at least the 1850s.
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were secured from the public. In 1824, the state legislature passed a charter incorporating the
Hartford Retreat for the Insane, which opened to its first patient on April 1 of that year. The Hartford Retreat remained the only institution of its kind in the state until the first public institution for the mentally ill opened in Middletown in 1867.
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95:, a founding member of the society, was expelled for patenting and marketing a metallic tractor he claimed could cure multiple diseases. While the medical establishment mostly denounced the invention, its popularity grew, with
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