Hayden v. State

Citations

• 81 Miss. 291

Syllabus

<p>Physicians. Practice of medicine. License. Osteopathy. Code 1892, g 1258. Laws 1886, p. 79.</p> <p>A practioner of osteopathy, who treats diseases only by manipulation of the patient’s limbs, muscles, ligaments and bones, does not practice medicine within the meaning of code 1892, $ 1258, and laws of 1896, p. 79, chap. 68, forbidding the practice of medicine without license, and defining the practice of medicine as meaning “ to prescribe or direct for the use of any person any drug, medicine, appliance or agency . . . for cure of any disease, fracture, wound, etc.”</p>