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 1326 Description. Provisos . No Federal expense incurred. Reversion for non- user. February 27, 1929. [S. 3936 .]	[Public, No. 831 .] Healing Arts Prac- tice Act, D. C., 1928. Meanings assigned to terms. "Disease ." "The healing art ." Proviso. Exclusions. Dentistry. Vol. 43, p. 599. Podiatry. Vol. 40, p. 560. Optometry. Vol. 43, p. 177. Pharmacy. Vol. 34, p. 175; Vol; 44, p.1413. N ursing. Vol. 34, p. 887. "T o prac tice ." SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHs. 351, 352. 1929. particularly described as follows, to wit , Beginning at the inter- section of the north line of Fifth South Street produced and the west line of Fort Douglas United States Military Reservation, said point being three hundred and ninety-one and forty-eight hundredths feet east and sixty-three and thirty-seven hundredths feet north of the city monument at the intersection of Thirteenth East and Fifth South Streets, thence east one thousand three hundred and twenty feet, thence south one hundred and thirt y-one and one hun- dred feet, thence west one thousand three hundred and twenty feet, th ence n orth on e hundr ed and thirty -one an d one hundred th feet to plac e of beginning : Prov ided, That the city of Salt Lake shall construct and maintain a street thereon, without expense to the United States : And provided further, That wh en said land shall cease to be used and maintained as a street it shall revert back to the United States and the instrument of conveyance shall recite such reversionary condition. Approved, February 27, 1929. CHAP. 352 .-An Act To regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That for the p urr pose of this Act the following words and phrases have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, except where the context otherwise re quires : (a) "Disease" means any blemish, defect, deformity, infirmity, disorder, disease or injury of the human body or mind, and preg- nancy, and the effects of any of them. (b) "The healing art" means the art of detecting or attempting to detect the presence of any disease ; of determining or attempting to determine the nature and state of any disease, if present ; of pre- venting, relieving, correcting, or curing, or of attempting to prevent, relieve, correct, or cure any disease ; of safeguarding or attempting to safeguard the life of any woman and infant through pregnancy and parturition ; and of doing or attempting to do any of the acts enumerated above : Provided, That for the purposes of this Act the term " the healing art " does not include- (1) Dentistry as defined in an Act entitled "An Act for the regu- lation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto," approved June 6, 1892, as amended by Acts approved June 7, 1924, and March 4, 1927 ; nor (2) Podiatry as defined in an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia," approved May 23, 1918 ; nor (3) Optometry as defined in an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the prac tice of opto metr y in the Dis tric t of Col umbi a," appr oved May 28, 1924 ; nor (4) Pharmacy as defined in an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the District of Columbia, and for ot her purposes," approv ed May 7, 1906, as amended by an Act approved March 4, 1924 ; nor (5) Nursing as defined in an Act entitled "An Act to define the term `registered nurse' and to provide for the registration of nurses in the District of Columbia," approved February 9, 1907. (c) "To practice" means to do or to attempt to do, or to hold one- self out or to allow oneself to be held out as ready to do, any act enumerated in subsection (b) of this section as constituting a part

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