The complaint charged her with practising medicine contrary to Chapter 104 of the Laws of the 21st Assembly of Iowa; that, without complying with the provisions of that chapter, she performed the act of healing upon Mrs. George B. Freeman. Mrs Post's attorneys attempted to prove that her patient was actually healed; but the special attorney for the monopoly objected to such evidence.
In the District Court, Mrs. Post's attorneys pleaded guilty for her to the charge, and then moved to discharge her, on the ground that, while the Legislature might pass a law to protect the health of the people, yet, if the law sought to punish the healing act, this was not Constitutional. The District Judge sustained this position, and discharged the prisoner. A witty writer says, the Secretary of the State Board of Health ought to keep better Post-ed.
