Section 2(2) in The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963
(2)The expression "to practise any system of medicine" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to hold oneself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe medicine or any other remedy or to give medicine for any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition or by any advertisement, demonstration, exhibition or teaching to offer or under-take by any means or method whatsoever to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe medicine or any other remedy or to give medicine for any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition:Provided that, a person who,(i)mechanically fits or sells lenses, artificial eyes, limbs or other apparatus or. appliances; or(ii)is engaged in the mechanical examination of eyes for the purpose of constructing or adjusting spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses; or(iii)practises physio-therapy or electro-therapy or chiropody or naturopathy or hydropathy or yogic healing; or(iv)without personal gain furnishes medical treatment or does domestic administration of family remedies; or(v)being registered under the Dentists Act, 1948, limits his practice to the art of dentistry; or(vi)being a nurse, midwife or health visitor .registered or enlisted under the Bombay Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act, 1954, or any other corresponding law for the time being in force in the State, or a Dai, attends on a case of labour, shall not be deemed on that account only to practise any system of medicine.Explanation. - In this sub-section-(i)"advertisement" includes any word, letter, notice, circular, picture, illustration, model, sign, placard, board or other document and any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light, sound, smoke, or other audible or visible representation; and(ii)"physio-therapy" means treatment of any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition by massage or other physical means, but does not include bone-setting.
