Brooks v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Bussell. Tried before the Hon. Jesse M. Carmichael. The defendant in this case, Dr. S. W. Brooks, having procured a diploma from a regular medical college in Georgia, came into Bussell county, Alabama, in April, 1889, and there began to practice medicine, having had his diploma recorded in the office of the judge of probate.
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From the Circuit Court of Bussell. Tried before the Hon. Jesse M. Carmichael. The defendant in this case, Dr. S. W. Brooks, having procured a diploma from a regular medical college in Georgia, came into Bussell county, Alabama, in April, 1889, and there began to practice medicine, having had his diploma recorded in the office of the judge of probate. At that time, there was a county medical society in Bussell, in affiliation with the State Medical Association; and Dr. Brooks not having gone before its Board of Censors for examination, licetíse, or certificate of qualification, the indictment…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
There can be few questions, if any, more clearly within the police powers of the government, than the conservation of the public health. On this power rests all the doctrine of quarantine, of pest-houses, of compulsory vaccination, of sanitary s'ewerage, of many forms of public nuisance, and many other acts of precaution, not necessary to be enumerated. And a learned and qualified membership of the medical profession is one of the confessed agencies in protecting the public against the dangers of charlatanism. To prescribe rules and tests for the ascertainment of the qualifications of…
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