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Show CHIROPRACTIC CASE IfJ IW OF TBI Contest That Takes on National Na-tional Significance Opens in Ogden Court. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Sept. 18. The first test in this state as to whether chiropractic science, meaning the treatment ot the spine for disease ot the human body, comes within the pale of medical med-ical practice and necessitates a state license for the operator, 1s being made in Judge James A. Howell's division of the Second district court. F. J, Freenor. a local chiropractor, who has been operating here for more than a year past. Is the defendant, the action to obtain ob-tain an Injunction until he is granted a state license having been Instigated by the state board of medicul examiners. The case was opened at 2 o'clock this afternoon and it Is not probable that the trial will be concluded for several days. The case has a national significance In that Lieutenant Governor Thomas Morris of Wisconsin, chief counsel for the Universal Uni-versal Chiropractors' association, made a trip to this city to aid in the defense of Freenor, the latter being a member of the organization. The case for the defense is being chiefly handled by Attorney George Halyerson of this city. Judge H. H. Henderson Is representing District Attorney John C. Davis in the prosecution prosecu-tion and much of the evidence to be presented pre-sented on behalf of the state was obtained by T. E. Browning, former chief of police, po-lice, who is now a special Investigator for the Utah Medical society. It is contended in the complaint, which requires the chiropractor to show cause why he should not be restrained from practicing until he obtains a license, that chiropathy is In violation of the state law because i he diagnoses, prescribes medicine and otherwise practices medl- cine in a manner requiring a state license. li-cense. The defendant denies that he practices medicine in the meaning of the Utah law and the testimony of nearly twenty witnesses, patients of Freenor, who testified this afternoon, failed to disclose dis-close a single case where he had prescribed pre-scribed medicine or performed a surgical operation. Nearly 100 witnesses, largely patients of the chiropractor, will be called upon to testify before the case is concluded. |