State v. Pratt

Citations

• 92 Wash. 200
• 158 P. 981
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1140

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and Surgeons — Practicing Without a License — Statutes — Evidence—Sufficiency. One who treats the sick by a method called “Suggestive Therapeutics,” consisting of the laying on of hands and giving mental suggestions, cannot escape conviction for practicing without a license, under Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 8400 to 8405, by the fact that, before treatment, he assured the patient that the treatment was by prayer only, as that is a mere subterfuge to bring the case within the proviso to the statute.</p>