State Ex Rel. Bierring v. Robinson

Plaintiff’s petition charged the defendant with engaging in the practice of medicine without a license. The answer admitted that defendant had no license but averred that he had “committed no act * * * requiring any license under any valid statute in Iowa. ’ ’

Section 2439, Code of 1939, provides that no person shall engage in the practice of medicine and surgery without a license, and section 2538 defines persons who shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery as:

“1. Persons who publicly profess to be physicians or surgeons or who publicly profess to assume the…