Article February 21, 1901 Issue

Victory in California

San Francisco Chronicle

Sacramento, February 8.—The Christian Scientists, electric healers, osteopaths, and other irregular practitioners in the art of healing have won their fight against the Maggard-Hasson medical bill and the section of the measure directed against them was amended in the Senate on third reading this afternoon in a manner that practically meets their wishes. The bill was reached late in the morning and had held attention after recess until mid-afternoon. Devlin of Sacramento moved the vital amendment and Rowell of Fresno, a regular physican of the old school in private life and a strong advocate of the bill in its original form, was the committee of one that reported it.

The amendment struck out the section defining the persons who shall be deemed as practising medicine and substituted this wording: "Those who for a pecuniary or valuable consideration prescribe or use any drug or medicine, appliance or medical or surgical treatment, or perform any operation for the relief or cure of any bodily injury or disease."—San Francisco Chronicle.

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