State v. Michaels

The title of ch. 147, Stats., is “Treating the Sick.” Sec. 147.14 (3) provides:

“No person not possessing a license to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathy, or osteopathy and surgery, under section 147.17, shall use or assume the title ‘doctor’ or append to his name the words or letters ‘doctor,’ ‘Dr.,’ ‘specialist,’ ‘M. D.,’ ‘D. O.,’ or any other title, letters or designation which represents or may tend to represent him as a doctor in any branch of treating the sick.”

Upon the trial it was stipulated:

“That defendant H. J. Michaels has been advertising and announcing himself, and in…