People v. Reetz

Respondent was convicted of having practiced medicine without complying with Act No. 237 of the Public Acts of 1899, entitled “An act to provide for the examination, regulation, licensing, and registration of physicians and surgeons, and for the punishment of offenders against this act, and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.”

The first act passed by the legislature of this State to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery is Act No. 167, Pub. Acts 1883. This was amended by Act No. 268, Pub. Acts 1887. Then followed the act of 1899, covering the entire subject, and…