Willis

The defendant was convicted under an information charging that he “did willfully and unlawfully practice a system and mode of treating the sick and afflicted in the State of California, without then and there having a valid unrevoked certifícate of license from the Board of Medical Examiners of the State of California so to do.” The statute (sec. 17, Stats, of 1917, p. 114) provides: “Any person who shall practice or attempt to practice or who advertises or holds himself out as practicing any system or* mode of treating the sick or afflicted in this state, or who shall diagnose, treat, operate for, or prescribe for, any disease, injury, deformity, or other mental or physical condition of any person without having at the time of so doing a valid unrevoked certificate as provided in this act, . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be punished as designated in this act.”

No attack is made upon the validity of the statute, but the claim of appellant is that in following his peculiar mode of treatment he is not subject to its provisions. His brief contains an interesting and illuminating discussion of the philosophy and technique of the chiropractic…