ALABAMA. 



There are no special provisions made for enforcing the law pro- 

 hibiting the adulteration of drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Conduct of drua store; penally. It shall be unlawful for any person not a 

 registered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any pharmacy, 

 drug store, apothecary shop or store located in any village, town or city in the 

 State of Alabama of more than five hundred inhabitants or within two miles 

 of any incorporated city or town of more than five hundred inhabitants, for the 

 purpose of retailing, compounding or dispensing medicines or poisons for 

 medical use, except as hereinafter provided. Any person violating any of the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dol- 

 lars for each and every offense. 



2. Compounding and dispenxinf/ driiys; penalty. It shall be unlawful for 

 the proprietor of any store or pharmacy in any village, town or city in the State 

 of Alabama of more than five hundred inhabitants or within two miles of any 

 incorporated'- city or town of more than five hundred inhabitants, to allow any 

 person except a registered pharmacist to compound or dispense the prescriptions 

 of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, except as an aid 

 to, and under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Any person violating 

 any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 

 one hundred dollars for each and every offense. Act of February 25, 1889, as 

 amended February 18, 1897. 



Acts 189G-7, p. 1450. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1. Labels. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail, arsenic or any of its 

 preparations, corrosive sublimate, white or red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, 

 cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, or any poisonous vegetable, 

 alkaloids or their salts, or 'the essential oil of almonds, opium or its preparation, 

 except paragoric," and other preparation of opium, containing less than two 

 grains to the ounce, aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, mix vomica, hen- 

 bane, savine, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, vera train, digitalis and 

 their pharmaceutical preparations, cotton oil,a chloroform, chloral hydrate, sul- 

 phate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic and oxalic acids without labeling the box, 

 vessel or paper, in which the said poisons are contained with the name of the 

 article, the word poison, and the name and place of business of the seller, and 

 enter in a book kept for that purpose, the name of the purchaser, date of sale, 



o So in Statutes. 

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