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Practice of Chiropractic means the engagement in the diagnosis and analysis of and any interference with normal nerve transmission and expression, the procedure preparatory to and complementary to the correction thereof by an adjustment of the articulations of the vertebral column, its immediate articulations, or by other incidental adjustments for the restoration and maintenance of health and includes therapy, the normal regimen and rehabilitations of the patient for the purpose of removing any injury, deformity, or abnormality of human beings without the use of drugs or surgery. The Practice of Chiropractic shall not include the performance of the duties, of a mid-wife or obstetrician, therapy by the use of ionizing radiation, incisive surgery, prescribing for or administering to any person any drug to be taken internally, or puncturing the skin, except for the purpose of drawing blood for diagnostic purposes.