State v. Gibson

De Graff, J. —

The State concedes that defendant is licensed to practice osteopathy. The defendant does not claim that he is licensed to practice medicine. The statute defines osteopathy as follows:

“The word ‘osteopathy’ as used in this act is the name of that system of the healing art which places the chief emphasis on the structural integrity of the body mechanism as being the most important factor for maintaining the organism in health.” Section 3, Chapter 77, Acts of the Thirty-ninth General Assembly.

Section 15 of said chapter prohibits osteopathic physicians “to prescribe or give internal…