The Travancore Cochin Medical Practitioners' Act (1953) regulates the qualifications and provides registration for medical doctors qualified in

modern medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practice ...

homeopathic medicine Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a dise ...

and indigenous medicine. At the time of enactment, it extended to the state of Travancore-Cochin, which later became

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state. The Act directs the establishment of the Council of Modern Medicine (with 9 members), Council of Homeopathic medicine (5 members) and the council of indigenous medicine (11 members). This Act allows giving registration for practicing medicine to those registered under this Act. The practitioners registered under this Act will be listed in a registry. The annual list of practitioners is published in gazettes. Practitioners registered under this Act are allowed to use the words ''legally qualified medical practitioner'' or ''duly qualified medical practitioner''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners' Act, 1953 Medical education in India Health law in India Acts of the Parliament of India 1953