Savelli

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandate to compel respondent to permit appellant to take the written examination for a license as a physician and surgeon.

Appellant filed an application with respondent for a written examination for a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate. The application was denied on the ground that appellant was not a graduate of a medical school approved by respondent. Appellant thereupon requested a hearing before respondent, and a hearing was had before a hearing officer on a statement of issues filed pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (Gov.Code, §§ 11370 to 11528, inch). Appellant was the sole witness at this hearing, and testified as follows: that he was then a licensed drugless practitioner; that he was licensed as a pharmacist in 1928 and practiced as such until 1935 when he enrolled at a college for drugless practitioners; that he was trained in an approved course of instruction totalling 3,234 hours, and was examined and licensed in 1939 as a drugless practitioner; that he then entered the practice of the profession of drugless practitioner; that in 1951, pursuant to a legislative enactment in 1949 which allowed a drugless…