Amending the Employees' Compensation Act to Include Chiropractors: Hearings, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 8963. May 22, 27, 1940 |
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Page 1 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 29 - Clerk, within thirty days from date of their occurrence, all births and deaths which may come under their supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death, and such correlative facts as the Board may require, in the blank forms furnished as hereinafter provided.
Page 23 - Code, § 84-1209. That chapter contains also the following: "Ostéopathie physicians shall observe and be subject to all State and municipal regulations relating to the control of contagious...
Page 3 - That for any injury sustained by an employee while in the performance of duty, whether or not disability has arisen, the United States shall furnish to the employee all services, appliances, and supplies prescribed or recommended by duly qualified physicians which, in the opinion of the commission, are likely to cure or to give relief or to reduce the degree or the period of disability or to aid in lessening the amount of the monthly compensation.
Page 46 - The legal signification of the term doctor, when employed as it is in this contract, means simply a practitioner of physic. The system pursued by the practitioner is immaterial. The law has nothing to do with the merits of particular systems. Their relative merit may become the subject of inquiry when the skill or ability of a practitioner, in any given case, is to be passed upon as a matter of fact. But the law does not and cannot supply any positive rules for the interpretation of medical science....
Page 46 - ... of opinion. No one system of practice has been uniformly followed, but physicians, from the days of Hippocrates, have been divided into opposing sects and schools. The sects of the Dogmatists and the Empirics divided the ancient world for centuries, until the rise of the Methodics, who, in their turn, gave way to innumerable sects. Theories of practice, believed to be infallible in one age, have been utterly rejected in another.
Page 29 - Any person who shall violate, or refuse, or neglect, to conform to any sanitary rule, order or regulation prescribed by the state board of health for the prevention of the pollution of ice or the sale or disposition of polluted ice offered, kept or intended for public use or consumption, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 21 - doctor of medicine,' or the term 'surgeon,' or the term 'physician,' or the word 'osteopath,
Page 1 - physician" as used in the regulations in this subchapter includes surgeons and osteopathic practitioners within the scope of their practice as defined by State law. The term "medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies...
Page 26 - On receiving from the state board an official report that an applicant has successfully passed the examination and is recommended for license, the regents shall issue to him, if in their judgment he is duly qualified therefor, a license to practice veterinary medicine.