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Show CHIROPRACTOR 1ST FACE IRE HIGHER COURT C. B. Johnson, the local chiropractor, chiroprac-tor, Avas held to the district court for trial by Municipal Judge George S. Barker. Johnson's preliminary hearing hear-ing was held Wednesday. He is charged with practicing medicine without with-out a license. The decision .of the court in the case rested on the legal meaning of the word "diagnose," as written In the statutes. In several other cases relating to the same thing the supreme court held that those who diagnosed and treated for physical ailments ail-ments without aJicnnse were doing so in violation of the law. Tho case presented a peculiar condition. con-dition. J. H. Madson, die man who swore to the complaint, testified in the hearing that there was nothing the matter with him when he went to the office of Dr. Johnson for treatment. He testified that Dr. Johnson had not told him there was anything wrong,! but had said that his snine needed adjusting and had accordingly done; the adjusting, as per the method pursued pur-sued in chiropractics. Judge Barker held that when Dr. Johnson told Madson his spine needed adjusting, he had diagnosed, in spite of tho fact that the patient had said he had no specific ailment. . .fin |