drugless therapeutics

drugless therapeutics
Hydrotherapy, dietetics, electrotherapy, radiography, sanitation, suggestion, or mechanical and manual manipulation for the stimulation of physiological and psychological action to establish a normal condition of mind and body, but in no way including the giving, prescribing or recommending of pharmaceutic drugs and poisons for internal use. Kelly v Carroll, 36 Wash 2d 482, 219 P2d 79, 19 ALR2d 1174.

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