Article March 28, 1903 Issue

Legislation in North Carolina

WE are in receipt of very full reports of the defeat in the North Carolina legislature of a bill entitled, "An act to define the Practice of Medicine and Surgery," in which these terms were construed to mean "the management or treatment for fee or reward of any case of disease, physical or mental, real or imaginary, with or without drugs, surgical operation, surgical or mechanical appliances, or by any other method whatsoever: Provided, that this shall not apply to midwives, nor to nurses acting under the direction of a registered physician."

The interdiction of the practice of Christian Science healing was one of the undenied purposes of the bill, and its discussion awakened much interest throughout the state. Christian Scientists rallied in goodly numbers from many points and they have the credit and satisfaction of having won a notable victory through the many friends of religious liberty whose numbers increased steadily during the three weeks between the introduction of the bill and its defeat, near the close of the session.

Full advantage was taken of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in the case of the State v. McKnight, an osteopath, in which it was declared:—

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