Wells v. State Board of Drugless Examiners

Citations

• 113 Wash. 371
• 194 P. 388
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 853

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and Surgeons (2, 4-1) —Power to Practice — Statutes — License or Certificate — Classhhcation of Drugless Healers. Laws of 1919, page 64, § 12, classifying licenses for drugless healing and defining suggestive therapeutics as a system of suggestions that will cause the mind to overcome disease, was not intended to draw a distinction between mental healing resulting from suggestions from the practitioner and reasoning between the practitioner and patient; and a practitioner depending upon the latter system is not entitled to demand a certificate as an exponent of another “separate and co-ordinate system” under the name which has been designated by the school adopting that system.</p>