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Show GHIROPRAGTDRS MUST PASS TESTS ; I TO PRACTICE IN THE STATE OF UTAH I Chiropractors and followers of similar schools of healing will H be compelled to pass the examinations of the stale board of medi- H cal examiners or go out of business in the state, accoidlng to a de- H clslon handed down by the stale supreme court Saturday. Tho H state board of medical examiners anil members of the accepted , H schools of medicine regard the decision as a great victory and one H which settles definitely and finally the controversy over the acllv- H Ity of the chiropractors that has been going on for several years. M The decision of the supreme court is not an indictment of the old- H lopractic and allied school of healing, but merely stipulates thai M such schools come under the state law regulating the practice of H medicine and that in order to practice their calling in Utah tho H chiropractors must puss the same examination required of other H practitioners. H Derision Us Chief Justice Slraup. H Chief .lusticc 1). N. Straup wrote the decision of the supremo M court ami It was concurred in by Justices J. K. I'lick nnd William M McCarly. It was in the case or the slate hoard of medical oxani- M iners against F. J. I'reonor. In the decision Cliiuf Justice Slraup mm H "The law Is not concerned with the question of whether ehiro- , H practic is as gootl as or better than other systems of treatment. D It is concerned with the question that before anyone shall under- M take, no matter by what system, to diagnose, treat, operate uimiii, M or proscribe or advise for, any physical or mental ailment or con- M illtion of another for a fee or other consideration, he shall possess mm the learning and skill required by the statute and produce a tie- M gree or diploma from a college meeting the requirements enumer- M att'tl in the statute, ami successfully pass an examination before B the board showing Ids competency. M "When he does that, then he can practice whatever system H he may consider the most efficacious, or tlo that in a given case H which he thinks will produce the best result. Until he tloos that H he cannot practice at all, unless he comes within the exception of H the statute, 'those who heal only by spiritual means, without pre- M tending to have any knowledge of the science of medicine,' an ex- M ception put in the statute to permit treatment by Christian Science ml or other spiritual means." HI "Practicing medicine" is here defined by the state law: "Any M person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the mean- M ing of this title who shall diagnose, operate uoit or prescribe or M advise for nny physical or mental ailment or any abnormal, mental M or physical condition of another after having received or with in- M tent lo receive therefor, either directly or indirectly, any fee, gift, M compensation or other pecuniary benefit, reward or consideration; M or shall hold himself out by means of signs, cards, advertisementH M or otherwise as a physician and surgeon. M Thirty-Five Hundred Hours of Study Required. 'L Provision is also made in the law that the board of medical ox- L uminers shall license all practitioners, who must pass the exam- L iualion provided. Requirements of a practitioner include thirty- M five hundred hours of study at any legally chartered medical L school and a diploma showing that the applicant has studied and M passed in histology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry, toxicology H antl n considerable iist of other subjects. The allopathic, home- L opathic aud osteopathic practitioners all had to fulfill these re- H qulrements and they have contended that all other schools of heal- L ing should be submitted to the same tests. , L Freenor attended the Davenport, la., college of chiropraeties, H but conceded that he had not bail the schooling prescribed in tho H medical law. It was his contention that he was not a medical H practitioner and that he antl his school of healing tlid not come tin- H tier the provisions of the act. The supreme court holds tithorwiso. L Supreme Court's Decision Is Lengthy. k The supreme court's decision is a longthy ono, Justice Straup H going into tho testimony introduced when Freenor's cno was bu- H fore the district court in Ogden. It might be stated, parenthetic- B ally, that chiropraeties was described in the case as an "adjust- H ment" of the spinal vertebrae. In concurring in the opinion of - H the chief justice, Justice Frick appended some commont on the H case. "It is seldom," he said, "that the wisdom, utility ami jtiiu f H necessity of a statute can be so forcibly and Irrefutably tlom- H onatrated in nn opinion as is tho case in the preceding opinion. ' H Here is a socalled doctor who, without hesitation, informs us in H the first quarter of the twentieth century that 'In case of diph- H thcria I would assume that that was caused primarily by some H defect with the nerve leading from the vertebrae.' Instead of nr- resting tho dendly toxins the doctor would nwrely 'palpate' tho m spine nnd in thnt way attempt a cure." According to news received from Ogden, V. J. Freenor gave out a public statement declaring that ho would continue tovprnctice, m and appeal the case to the supreme court of the United States, if :H necessary, ., I |