State Board of Medical Examiners v. Plager

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

The question requiring decision in this cause is whether defendant, not a licensed physician, by taking blood pressure, diagnosed a physical condition in violation of section 8 of chapter 271, Pamph. L. 1915.

This section, so far as is applicable here, provides as follows:

“Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine and surgery within the meaning of this act, who * * * holds himself or herself out as being able to diagnose * * * any human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, or who shall either offer or undertake by…