RT Journal
T1 QUackery wins a point in iowa.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD August 5
VO XXXIII
IS 6
SP 361
OP 361
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450580055016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450580055016
AB A local judge in Knoxville, Iowa, has declared the provisions of the state code in reference to the licensing of physicians to be unconstitutional, thus throwing over the state to the irregulars and quacks. The decision was given in granting a writ of habeas corpus to a notorious "Indian" doctor who had been arrested for the illegal practice of medicine. The grounds of his decision are not stated in the newspaper dispatch, and one cannot therefore form any judgment as to their validity, but the judge apparently made up his mind without taking any undue length of time, as the argument was made on Wednesday and the case decided Friday. One is naturally inclined to suspect a sympathy with quacks in some judicial and executive decisions, and we shall watch for further details of the case. It is understood that appeal to the supreme court will be taken promptly, and