State v. Howard

The suit is brought by the state, upon relation of the Attorney-general, under the provisions of section 2519 of the Code. It is conceded by the defendant that he is practicing the healing art, and has been so practicing the same for the period of twenty-one years at Cedar Rapids. His defense is that he uses neither medicine nor surgery in such practice; that he practices a system denominated by him as “Naprapathy”. This system is said, to have been! discovered by one Oakley Smith, who is the defendant’s chief witness. It is analogous in some respects to the osteopathic and the chiropractic…