CONNECTICUT. 



The commissioners of pharmacy are authorized to enforce the 

 general law prohibiting the sale of adulterated drugs and medicines. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



4724. Compounding and vending of drugs. No person shall conduct or keep a 

 place of any kind, for retailing drugs, medicines, poisons, or such chemicals as 

 are used in compounding medicines, or compound or dispense prescriptions of 

 a physician, or vend medicines or poisons, unless he shall have been licensed 

 therefor, as hereafter in this chapter provided, or shall be under the super- 

 vision of a licensed pharmacist. 



4729. Ej-ccittioiix. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this chapter 

 shall prevent a practicing physician from compounding his own prescriptions, 

 or prevent the sale of proprietary medicines, or prevent the sale of any drugs, 

 medicines, or poisons at wholesale either to licensed pharmacists, or for use 

 in manufactures or the arts, or prevent any person from becoming a partner in, 

 or the proprietor of, a pharmacy conducted by a licensed pharmacist, or prevent 

 the keeper of a country store from keeping for sale and selling such domestic 

 remedies as are usually kept and sold in such stores; but such keeper shall 

 not compound medicines, and medicinal preparations so kept, and recognized 

 by the United States dispensatory, shall be compounded by a licensed phar- 

 macist and marked by his label. 



4730. J'ciHilh/. Kvery person who shall wilfully violate any provisions of the 

 preceding sections of this chapter shall forfeit five dollars for each day that 

 he shall continue such violation, one-half to him who shall prosecute to effect, 

 and one-half to the town in which the offense is committed. Laws 1881, p, 71 

 and 73. 



General Statutes, 1002, p. 1129, 1131. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



4733. Regulations. Every person who shall sell arsenic, strychnine, corrosive 

 sublimate, prussic acid, or cyanide potassium, shall affix to the package sold 

 by him a label plainly marked with his name, date of sale, and the word 

 " poison," and the name of the poison sold, and shall enter at the time of such 

 sale on a book kept by him for that purpose the name of the purchaser, date of 

 sale, name of poison, and the quantity sold, which book shall be kept open for 

 public inspection, carefully preserved ; and when he shall close his business, or 

 remove from the town in which such business is carried on, or when said book 

 shall be filled with such entries, it shall be deposited by him in the office of the 

 town clerk of the town in which he may conduct his business ; and any person 

 who shall violate the preceding provisions of this section, or who, when purchas- 

 ing any of the articles herein named, shall give a false or fictitious name to the 

 vender thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred 

 dollars. (Laics 1881, p. 73.) 

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