Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-15
afashin9toa Standard
OiNuI'lA. WASH.
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Is, 1905.
Dosing vs.. Rubbing.

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before Justice Frost, this week, the
case beginning in the Superior Court
room, Saturday, at II A. NJ, and con-
Guiding Monday about 3 p. NJ. in &
verdict OF &" Not Guilty" by the jury, al.
ter than fifteen minutes considera.
ton OF the evidence submitted. The
courtroom was crowded during the
entire trial. large proportion OF the
auditors being women. The announce
ment OF the verdict was received with
a demonstration OF feeling seldom wit
messed in a conference.-the clapping
and shaking of hands, and some of the
women embracing each other in the
exuberance OF Joy. This exultation
was probably accentuated by the fact
that many OF them had been under
treatment by Mrs. Kohlman and all
claim to have received great benefit
from it.
The prosecution was based upon a
section found in the Session Laws Of
1901, pages 50-5l, amendatory OF Sec.
8 of an act regulating the practice Of
medicine, approved April 10th, 1890,
in which it is provided that any person
practicing medicine or surgery, or
either OF its or their branches, within
the State, without first having OBJ
tanned and flied the license provided
for in the act, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, fined not less than $50 nor
more than 500, or by imprisonment
not less than ten nor more than ninety
days, or both such fine and imprison-
ment. The act then goes on to state
what shall constitute a violation OF
the act: Failure to file q license /;
maintaining an Office, with his or her
name and the words physician"
"surgeon," doctor" IN. D." or IN.
B." in public view; advertising under
any title which may tend to show that
the person is lawful practitioner
practice under an assumed name, or
under cover Of the name OF some legal
practitioner; or for fee to prescribe,
direct or recommend any drug or
medicine for the cure or relief OF any
wound, fracture, or bodily injury,
in6rmity, or disease.
The action in the late case was
based entirely upon the first clause,
failure to file license with the County
Clerk, and the last, prescribing, for .
fee, a drug or medicine.
The evidence went to show that
Mrs. Koblman had charged only for
osteopathic treatment, . new system
Of therapeutics which supports the
theory that the human body is Q ma.
chine, and holds that disease results
only from some obstruction, or dis
placement of the mechanism, and it's
methods of treatment are by manipu-
lation of the bones, muscles and nerve
centers. The so-called medicine" is
simply . stimulant to hasten certain
effects, or . purgative to carry of, in
natural way, the rejected tissues, or
excrements discharged by the gradual
loosening Of the abnormal growth, or
to aid in re-establishiug the natural
position and ordinary functions OF the
organs Of the body.
Mr.. Stentz testified that he had paid
for treatment only, for term OF sew
eral weeks. but that the use OF the
liquid was continued sometime after.
ward, for which he paid. J. w. Math.
eson testified that he paid only for the
treatment, the liquid remedial agent
being furnished free. N. G. Glenn
testified to about the same statement
OF facts. These were witnesses for the
prosecution. Chas. r. Talcott, called
by the defense, testified that he was
near deaths door from stomach trou.
bles, suffering intense pain; that, as q
last resort, he authorized tho ministra-
tions Of Mrs. Kohlman; that after it
was over he felt an immediate relief,
and in half an hour was in peaceful
slumber. This witness testified that
Mrs. Kohlman positively refused to
receive any pay for the so-called
medicine" Here the case rested.
The jury who tried the case consisted
Of the following persons: George Nc
Clelland. A. A. Gottfeld, James Fraz.
Ter. Chas. Huggett, D. S. B. Henry
and E. J. Berneche. Horatio Alliug,
County Attorney, prosecuted, and
Vance & Mitchell appeared for the
defense. The action was brought by
direction Of the Medical Society OF
Thurston and Mason counties. The
charge was, practice of medicine with.
out license, and the specification on
which the complaint was based was
treating with medicines Mrs. ]. B.
Stentz. for q tumor.
No denial was made that Mrs. Kohl.
man had given massage, or osteo.
pathic treatment, without q license,
for the reason, as she claimed, her
system Of practice did not come
under the class prescribed by law, and
It seems she established to the salts.
faction of the jury that she did not ask
or receive pay for anything but the
manipulation Of the seat of disease,
the simple remedies given being of her
own manufacture and not contem-
plated in the proscriptive clause by the
Legislature.
Mr.. Alling's claim was based upon a
strict construction of law and by de-
timing the term medicine used in the