Medicine

The practice of medicine includes the application of medicines and drugs for the purpose of curing, mitigating or alleviating bodily diseases; while the practice of " surgery " is limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appliances."

I M'Culloch V. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 414 (1819); 35 N. J. L. 546. Perrine v. Kreman's Ins. Co., 23 Ala. 576 (1853); Knighton v. Cuery, 68 id. 408 (1878). 3 Schneider v. Hosiej, 21 Ohio St. 112 (1871), Mcllvaine, J.; Meidel v. Anthis, 71 111. 246 (1874), Breese, C. J. And see Sharpley v. Brown, 43 Hun, 375 (1887). < See Sedgwick, Damages, 29. 5 Berks County v. Bertolet, 13 Pa. E25 (1850), Rogers,,'Judge. Story V. Walker, 11 Lea, 517 (1883), Cooper, J. ' Whitoomb v. Reid, 81 Miss. 569 (1856).

One who undertakes to cure disease by mere manipulation is not engaged in practicing either medicine or surgery.*. " Allopathic practice " of medicine means the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned physicians, taught in their institutions, established by their highest authorities, and accepted by the larger portion of the community. By " eclectic practice " is intended a different system, unusual and eccentric, not countenanced by the class, referred to,, but characterized by them as spurious and denounced as dangerous. See Druggist; Drttos; Liquor; Physician.

Medicine-cliest.

All vessels over a given size are required, by acts of Congress, to keep a medicinechest' Medical. Pertaining to medicine, or the study or practice of medicine. Medical adviser.

See Communication, Privileged, 1.

Medical attendance

Is not restricted to professional medical services rendered; will include nursing, as, within a statute for the relief of paupers.* A medical attendant is one to whom the care of a sick person has been intrusted.

Medical college

Is not a "benevolent, charitable, scientific, or missionary society!" * The courts cannot be too scrupulous in examining the asserted rights of colleges to graduate matriculants with the degree of doctor of medicine. The power of the legislature to prescribe reasonable conditions calculated to exclude from the profession persons unfitted to discharge its duties cannot be questioned. Statutes for the accomplishment of this purpose, which have been common, generally require that the practitioner shall be a graduate of an institution for medical instruction, or shall have a certificate of qualification from some recognized body of men learned in the science, and shall be of good moral character.'

See Emergency.

Medical evidence

Testimony furnished by physicians or surgeons, or standard treatises prepared by them. See Expert; Science. Medical examination.

See Inspection, 3, Of person.

Medical jurisprudence

Treats of matters 1 Smith V. Lane, ante, = Bradbury v. Bardin, 34 Conn. 453 (1867), Mc Curdy, J.; Same v. Same, 36 id. 581 (1869).

Bardin had falsely represented that his practice, made the subject of a sale, was regular allopathic. ' 1 Story, Laws, 106; 2 id.

971; E. S. §§ 4569-70. ' Scott V. Winneshiek County, 53 Iowa, 680 (1879). ' Edington v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 5 Hun, 6 (1875).

People V. Cothran, 27 Hun, 345 (1883). ' People V. Gunn, 30 Hun, 325 (1883). requiring medical knowledge and skill, as well as knowledge of law; forensic medi- cine. Medical lectures. See Lectuees. Medical services. May include the professional services of a medical clairvoyant. ' Medical or medicinal uses.

See Liquor.

Medico-legal.

Pertaining to matters of toth law and medicine. MEDIETAS LnN-GU . L. Half of a tongue: a jury composed one-half each of aliens and denizens or natives; or, a jury one-half of whom are of the nationality of one of the parties to a suit. Medietatis linguce, or de medietate lingua. Of half a (mixed) tongue: half of each language or nationality. At common law, when an accused pers'on spoke only a foreign language, and the fact was made known to the court, a petit jury was immediately awarded, \irithout the ordinary precept, one-half of the jurors speaking English, and one-half the language of the alien. The principle never had application to thiscountry.*