Commonwealth v. Houtenbrink
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on October 22,1919, charging the defendant with practising optometry without being lawfully authorized to do so or registered with the board of registration in optometry; also a Complaint, received and sworn to in the same court on October 25, 1919, charging the defendant with holding himself out as a practitioner of medicine without being lawfully authorized to practise medicine or duly registered…
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on October 22,1919, charging the defendant with practising optometry without being lawfully authorized to do so or registered with the board of registration in optometry; also a Complaint, received and sworn to in the same court on October 25, 1919, charging the defendant with holding himself out as a practitioner of medicine without being lawfully authorized to practise medicine or duly registered with the board of registration in medicine. On appeal to the Superior Court, the complaints with the defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant was convicted on two complaints, one charging the practice of optometry, the other of medicine, *322without registration and certification as required by the statutes. Confessedly he was not registered nor certified so as to be authorized in accordance with the form of the statute to practise optometry or medicine.
There was evidence tending to show that the defendant held himself out as “Doctor of Ophthalmology,” as examining the eyes of persons who resorted to him for that purpose, that he used an instrument called the ophthalmoscope, through which he looked at the eye, placed a…
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