Commonwealth v. Zimmerman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 20, 1914, charging that the defendant at Boston on December 15, 1913, and on divers other days between that day and the day on which the complaint was received and sworn to, did practice medicine without being lawfully authorized to do so and registered, in violation of R. L. c. 76, § 8. On appeal to the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Dana, J. The only defence was that…
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 20, 1914, charging that the defendant at Boston on December 15, 1913, and on divers other days between that day and the day on which the complaint was received and sworn to, did practice medicine without being lawfully authorized to do so and registered, in violation of R. L. c. 76, § 8. On appeal to the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Dana, J. The only defence was that the defendant was a chiropractor and that his acts were not in violation of the statute on which the complaint was based.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant has been found guilty of violation of R. L. c. 76, § 8, in that he practiced medicine without being lawfully authorized. He defends on the ground that he is a chiropractor and that his acts do not constitute a violation of the statute. The 'evidence tended to show that he kept an office in Boston, indicated by a sign on which was his name followed by the word, chiropractor; that he practiced for pay; that he said that the basis of chiropractic is the adjustment of the vertebrae of the spine; that the vertebrae when not in their normal positions press upon the nerves at the…
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