Abstract
<h3>Medical Practice Acts: Internal Curative Medicine; Use by Osteopath Unlawful.—</h3> The defendant, a licensed osteopath, treated a patient for hemorrhoids by the interstitial infiltration method, using a solution of 95 per cent Wesson oil with 5 per cent phenol. The state of Iowa, contending that this constituted the practice of medicine, sought to enjoin him. The trial court denied the injunction and the state appealed to the Supreme Court of Iowa. A license to practice osteopathy or osteopathy and surgery, said the Supreme Court, does not authorize the holder to prescribe or give internal curative medicine. If the defendant prescribed or gave internal curative medicines, the injunction prayed for by the state should have been granted. The defendant, while admitting that phenol is a common drug, insisted that it was not a curative medicine. Several osteopathic witnesses testified that phenol is not a curative medicine and that, as the defendant
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