State v. Lydon

— This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence for the crime of practicing medicine and surgery without a license. A complaint, filed in the justice court in and for Seattle precinct, charged the defendant with unlawfully practicing, and holding himself out as practicing, medicine and surgery, in this:

“That he, the said defendant, John E. Lydon, did then and there treat and pretend to treat and heal one Jennie Neihuis, a human being, for disease and physical condition, to-wit: cancer of the breast, by severing and penetrating the tissues of said Jennie Neihuis, a human being,…