None of the provisions of this chapter or the laws of this State regulating the practice of medicine or healing shall be construed to interfere with treatment by prayer or with any person who administers to or treats the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means, nor shall any person who selects such treatment for the cure of disease be compelled to submit to any form of medical treatment, nor shall any such person be removed to any isolation hospital or camp without his or her consent if the sanitary and quarantine laws of the State are complied with.
[8:199:1911; added 1919, 221; 1919 RL p. 2894; NCL § 5276]