THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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A PROPOSED NEW PHARMACY LAW. * 



A proposed new pharmacy law which 

 is undergoing discussion at present among 

 various pharmaceutical organizations, is 

 as follows:- "It shall be unlawful for 

 any person to retail or deliver any poi- 

 sons enumerated in Schedules A and B 

 without first ascertaining that the pur- 

 chaser, who must be known to the seller, 

 is aware of their poisonous nature: that 

 they are to be used for a legitimate. and 

 stated purpose, and distinctly labeling, 

 with a ' poison label' bearing the name 

 and address of the proprietor of the store 

 in which they are sold, and the name of 

 the poison delivered, the bottle, box, 

 vessel or packet in which it is contained, 

 and, as to the poisons included in Sched- 

 ule A; besides complying with the fore- 

 going, an entry shall be made, or caused 

 to be made, in a book kept for that pur- 

 pose, stating the date of sale, the name 

 and address of the purchaser, the name, 

 quantity and quality of the poison sold, 

 the purpose for which it is represented to 

 be required, and the seller's name; said 

 book to be always open for inspection by 

 the proper authorities during business 

 hours, and to be preserved in said store 

 for at least five years, or, in the case of 

 abandonment or removal of store from 

 the jurisdiction of the city, town or 

 county wherein it is located, deposited 

 with the authorized board of pharmacy 

 of that locality. 



" Any person violating the provisions 

 of this section shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 

 be fined in a sum not exceeding $25 for 

 violating the provisions of Schedule A, 

 and not more than $10 for violating those 

 of Schedule B. 



" None of the provisions of this section 



* We have just learned that it was decided that the 

 President appoint a committee of Seven consisting 

 ol the foui professors and three members (practising 

 pharmacists) to draft a new Poison Bill, and report to 

 next stated meeting of the College in January. 



shall apply to the dispensing of poisons, 

 in not unusual quantities or doses, upon 

 the prescriptions of practitioners of medi- 

 cine. 



"Schedule A. 

 " Arsenic and its preparations; corro- 

 sive sublimate, white precipitate, red 

 precipitate, iodide, biniodide and cyan- 

 ide of mercury, cyanide of potassium ; 

 hydrocyanic acid; cobalt and its salts, 

 cantharides and its preparations, except 

 the collodion and the cerate made there- 

 from; creosote; carbolic acid in crystals, 

 or solutions of same containing more 

 than lopercent. of the acid; chloroform; 

 chloral hydrate and croton chloral hy- 

 drate; croton oil; cocaine and its salts; 

 essential oil of bitter almonds, tansy and 

 pennyroyal; oxalic acid; conium, curare, 

 coculus Indicus, cotton root, ergot, savin, 

 belladonna, calabar bean, St. Ignatus 

 bean, the hellebores, the henbanes, In- 

 dian hemp, nux vomica, aconite, opium 

 (excepting Dover's powders and the 

 syrup or other equivalent preparations, 

 liquid or otherwise, of the same; also 

 those preparations containing not more 

 than 9 grains of opium to the ounce), 

 stramonium (except the leaves), and 

 their oils, tinctures, extracts, alkaloids 

 and the salts of same, and such prepara- 

 tions into which any of the above enu- 

 merated drugs enter in poisonous qanti- 

 ties. 



" Schedule B. 



" All other drugs, chemicals and phar- 

 maceutical preparations not enumerated 

 in Schedule A and ranked as poisonous 

 in standard works on materia medica." 



In discussing Schedule B, it said that 

 it was " somewhat novel in feature, self- 

 adapting, as it were, and would include 

 new poisons as fast as they became 

 known; the only further legislation re- 

 quired in the future under this law being 

 but supplementary, and would simply 



