§ 5-30-1 "Chiropractic medicine" defined.
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For the purpose of this chapter, the practice of "chiropractic medicine" is
defined as the science and art of mechanical and material healing as follows:
the employment of a system of palpating and adjusting the articulations of the
human spinal column and its appendages, by hand and electro-mechanical
appliances, and the employment of corrective orthopedics and dietetics for the
elimination of the cause of disease; provided, that chiropractic physicians may
not write prescriptions for drugs for internal medication nor practice major
surgery as defined in chapter 37 of this title.
(G.L. 1923, ch. 159, § 14; P.L. 1927, ch. 1067, § 1; P.L. 1931, ch.
1781, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 275, § 14; G.L. 1956, § 5-30-1; P.L.
2000, ch. 347, § 1.)