State v. Bonham

Citations

• 93 Wash. 489
• 161 P. 377
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1239

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and Surgeons — Regulation—License to Practice— Statutes — Constitutionality. Rem. 1915 Code, § 8392, requiring applicants for licenses to practice medicine and surgery to present a diploma the requirements of which shall have been “in no particular less than those prescribed by the Association of American Medical Colleges for that year,” is not unconstitutional as granting legislative functions to such association.</p> <p>Same. Such provision could not be objected to by one applying for a license to practice osteopathy, as he was not affected by it, and it will not render the whole act unconstitutional.</p> <p>Same — Regulation—License to Practice — Methods Employed— Osteopaths — Statutes. The medical act having made a distinction between the practicing of medicine and osteopathy, confining the practitioners of each to the system they profess to practice; and the practice of osteopathy, at the time of the passage of the act, being confined to treatment without drugs or surgery; one licensed only to practice osteopathy is guilty of a misdemeanor in treating a patient by cutting out the tonsils and administering medicine, to wit, stypticene, under Rem. 1915 Code, §§ 8386-8407, section 8406 making it incumbent upon the holder of a certificate, under penalty of a misdemeanor, to use no deception in the use of titles of his or her mode of treating the sick and to use only such title as he or she holds license to practice.</p>