2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 51 - PODIATRISTS AND PODIATRY
Section 40-51-20. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Podiatry" shall mean the diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment limited to ailments of the human foot, except the administration of an anaesthetic other than local.
(2) "Diagnosis" shall mean to ascertain a disease or ailment by symptoms and findings and does not confer the right to use X-ray other than for diagnosis.
(3) "Medical treatment" shall mean the application or prescribing of any therapeutic agent or remedy for the relief of foot ailments, except the medical treatment of any systemic disease causing manifestations in the foot.
(4) "Surgical treatment" shall mean the use of any cutting instrument to treat a disease, ailment, deformity or condition of the foot, but shall not confer the right to amputate the foot or toes.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 56-1543.1; 1952 Code Section 56-301; 1942 Code Section 5231-1; 1935 (39) 180; 1960 (51) 1717; 1971 (57) 288.
