McNaughton v. Johnson

Citations

• 242 U.S. 344
• 37 S. Ct. 178
• 61 L. Ed. 352
• 1917 U.S. LEXIS 2192

Syllabus

<p>The practice of fitting glasses to the human eye, and treating ocular inflammation, without the use of drugs' or surgery, is subject to supervision and regulation under the state police power.</p> <p>No discrimination violative of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is dedueible from the faet that a state law (Laws . of California, 1913, c. 598) requiring persons treating inflammation of the eye and fitting glasses without the use of drugs to be licensed under the name of “optometrists’- and subjecting their practice to regulation excepts persons who employ, drugs in their practice, it appearing that the latter, through another statute, are subject to similar supervision and regulation under another name.</p>