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4734. Labeling; penalty. Every person who shall sey any of the articles 

 named in the schedule accompanying this section, marked schedule A, except 

 when prescribed by a practicing physician, or sold at wholesale to licensed 

 pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or in the arts, shall label the bottle, 

 box, or wrapper containing any such article, with a label upon which shall be 

 plainly written or printed the word " poison," and any person violating the pro- 

 visions of this section shall be fined one dollar. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Acid carbolic, ammoniated mercury, acid muriatic, chloroform, acid nitric, 

 tincture aconite, acid sulphuric, tincture belladonna, acid oxalic, tincture digi- 

 talis, creosote, tincture opium, extract belladonna, tincture veratrum viride, 

 sugar of lead, morphine, croton oil, mix vomica, cobalt, extract mix vomica, oil 

 bitter almonds, opium, oil tansy, cocculus indicus, aqua ammonia, red oxide 

 mercury, gelsemium, paris green, rat dynamite, rough on rats, or any article 

 similar to the last three. (Laivs 1882, p. 130.) 



General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131. 



[Sec. 4734 was amended (Public Acts, 1905, p. 298) by the addition of the fol- 

 lowing at the end of Schedule A : " wood or methylic alcohol under any name or 

 in any mixture."] 



4736. Regulations of sale of antitoxic scrums. No person shall sell, offer, or 

 expose for sale, or shall receive or solicit any order for the sale or delivery, 

 within this state, of any article known as diphtheria antitoxine, or any article 

 prepared from the blood serum of any animal, and intended to be used for a 

 medicine, unless the receptacle containing such preparation bears a label, 

 on which is placed the name and address of the producer, and upon such label, 

 or upon a circular accompanying such receptacle, and enclosed with it in a 

 sealed package, shall be printed or written the date of production and the 

 value of the contents in antitoxine as measured by some generally recognized 

 standard. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be fined 

 not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or 

 both. The state board of health may procure from any dealer in antitoxine 

 or other blood serum medicine samples of such articles and cause the same to 

 be tested, and if by such test it shall be found that the article tested is not 

 such as it is represented to be on the package, but of inferior quality, then the 

 seller of such inferior article shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, 

 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Laivs 1895, p. 592.) 



General Statutes, 1902, p. 1132. 



1. Sale of cocaine and eucaine and salts thereof restricted. It shall be unlaw- 

 ful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, furnish, or give away any 

 cocaine, salts of cocaine, eucaine or its salts, or any preparation containing 

 any cocaine, or salts of cocaine, or eucaine or its salts, except upon the original 

 written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine 

 or veterinary medicine, which order or prescription shall be dated, and shall 

 contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or if ordered by a practi- 

 tioner of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, 

 and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order; and such 

 written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, 

 firm, or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or pre- 

 scribed, and it shall not be recoinpounded or dispensed a second time except 



