Mr. W. M. ADAMSONI beg to present a petition signed by Brigadier-General Abel Smith, Walter Forrest, Dorothy Lawrence, Zia Wernher, Nigel Playfair, A. A. Hudson, K.C., and others, as follows:
Your Petitioners are of opinion that the practice of healing known as osteopathy, 2372 or the science of drugless medicine and bloodless surgery, is impeded by the Medical Act of 1858, which presses unjustly on practitioners other than members of the medical and surgical profession to whom the Medical Act applies.Your Petitioners therefore pray that your humble House will be pleased at an early date to pass a Bill to procure recognition and independent regulation of osteopathy and give properly qualified practitioners a legal status equivalent to that enjoyed by other recognised professions.