State v. Flanagan

This indictment charges that the defendant “unlawfully did practice medicine for reward and compensation without first having obtained a certificate from the State. Board of Health, and without possessing any of the qualifications set forth in Gen. Laws cap. 165, § 3.”

Section 6 of said chapter provi4es that nothing therein contained shall apply to gratuitous services in cases of emergency; to commissioned surgeons in the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service; or to legally qualified physicians of another State, called to see a particular case, who do not open an office or…