DELAWARE. 



No law exists specifically prohibiting the adulteration of drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Exclusive rights defined. It shall be unlawful for any person to open, con- 

 duct or manage within the corporate limits of any town in this State, any 

 pharmacy, drug store, or other place for the retailing, compounding or dis- 

 pensing of drugs, medicines or poisons, unless such person shall be registered 

 as a pharmacist under the provisions of this act. Nor shall the sale of patent, 

 quack or proprietary articles be lawful except in regular licensed stores under 

 a penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense. 



3. Restrictions as to compounding of physicians' prescriptions. No person 

 who shall conduct or manage any pharmacy, drug store, or other place for the 

 retailing, compounding or dispensing of drugs, medicines or poisons for medical 

 use shall permit or suffer at any time, any clerk or other employe to be left in 

 charge of same unless said person be registered as a proprietor or manager 

 according to the provisions of Section 2, chap. 30, vol. 18, Laws of Delaware, 

 or be registered as a qualified assistant according to the provisions hereinafter 

 stated. * * * Nor shall any -proprietor or manager of any pharmacy permit 

 any clerk or other person who has had less than two years' practical experience 

 in the retail drug business to compound and dispense any physician's pre- 

 scriptions except under the immediate directions of the proprietor or manager. 

 Any person who shall not comply with the provisions of this section shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined 

 not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each day whereon 

 such violation occurs or is continued, one-half of fine imposed to go to the 

 State Board of Pharmacy and the balance to the county in which such violation 

 occurs. (Law*, 1887, p. 81-82, as amended 1897.) 



Laws (Revised Code), 1893, p. 368. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



4. Record.*; jtciittHi/. Every dispenser of drugs shall keep a record of all sales 

 of strychnia, arsenic and corrosive sublimate, said record to be open to proper 

 legal inspection. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this 

 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be fined five dolars for each and every offense. (Laws 1887, p. 82.) 



Laws (Revised Code), 1893, p. 3G8. 



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