Practice of Chiropody by Corp.

Margiotti, Attorney General,

We have your letter of July 24, 1936, inquiring whether a certificate of incorporation should be granted to a proposed corporation that wishes to engage in the practice of chiropody.

The Century Dictionary & Cyclopedia defines chiropody as “The art of treating diseases, callosities, or excrescences of the hands and feet.”

In the case of Commonwealth v. Long, 100 Pa. Superior Ct. 150, the court, at page 152, stated that “the ‘practice of medicine’ includes all practice of the healing art, with or without drugs.”

It can readily be seen that the practice of chiropody…