Bibber v. Simpson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Ox exceptions to the ruling of Goddard, J., of the superior court for the county of Cumberland. Assumpsit on account annexed, for $51 for services rendered the defendants’ intestate, at his special request, by the plaintiff as a clairvoyant.
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Ox exceptions to the ruling of Goddard, J., of the superior court for the county of Cumberland. Assumpsit on account annexed, for $51 for services rendered the defendants’ intestate, at his special request, by the plaintiff as a clairvoyant. It appeared from the plaintiff’s testimony that she professed to be a clairvoyant; that when asked to examine the patient she saw the disease, and felt as the patient did; that sittings or seances were of different durations, from one-quarter to one-half of an hour each; that she did not pretend to understand medicine or anatomy; that she was requested by…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
The services rendered were medical in their character. True, the plaintiff does not call herself a physician, but she visits her sick patients, examines their condition, determines the nature of the disease, and prescribes the remedies deemed by her most appropriate. Whether the plaintiff calls herself a medical clairvoyant, or a clairvoyant physician, or a clear-seeing physician, matters little; assuredly, such services as the plaintiff claims to have rendered, purport to be and are to be deemed medical, and are within the clear and obvious meaning of R. S. 1871, c. 13, § 3, which provides…
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