36-12-1. Acts constituting practice of veterinary medicine.
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Any person shall be deemed in the practice of veterinary medicine who represents himself as or is engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine in any of its branches either directly or indirectly, or uses any words, titles, or letters, to title so as to signify that he is a veterinarian, or who for a fee diagnoses, prescribes or administers any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment of whatever nature, or performs a surgical operation or manipulation, or conducts any autopsy or biopsy, for the prevention, cure, or relief of a pain, deformity, wound, fracture, or bodily injury, or physical condition or disease of animals, and the term animals as used in this section shall mean all animals other than man, except that this section shall not be applicable to the advertising or the sale of foods and medicines used in commercial feeds for the prevention of livestock diseases.