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Empiric

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A practitioner in medicine or surgery, who proceeds on experience only, without science or legal qualification; a quack.

Nelson v. State Board of Health, 108 Ky. 769, 57 S. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383; Parks v. State, 159 Ind. 211, 64 N. E. 862, 59 In R. A. 190.