State v. Pratt

Appellant was convicted in the superior court of the crime of practicing medicine without a license. *201The controlling statutes are Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 8400-8405. Appellant maintains a place known as the “Progressive Healing Institute,” and had heretofore treated the sick and afflicted by a system or method which he called “Suggestive Therapeutics.” His method of treatment is described in the case of State v. Pratt, 80 Wash. 96, 141 Pac. 318, as a laying on of the hands upon that part “of the body where the trouble is upon certain parts of the spine that controls this — these nerves, or the…