Commonwealth v. Read

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 202
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 117

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and surgeons — Unlawfully assuming to practice medicine — Evidence.</p> <p>In the trial of an indictment charging the defendant with being unlawfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, a conviction will be sustained where the evidence established that the defendant, who was not a licensed physician, examined patients by physical tests, made inquiry of their past condition, examined the pulse and tongue to diagnose the cause of the real or alleged malady, after which he prescribed his special remedy that would afford relief.</p> <p>It has been uniformly held that where one holds himself out as competent to prescribe, he is engaged in the practice of medicine, notwithstanding that the remedy prescribed by him, and for which alone he assumes to charge, is one of his own inventions or compounding.</p>