46 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



disease, injury, or deformity, and for no other purpose whatsoever. No dentist 

 shall furnish or prescribe any drug, compound, or preparation aforesaid to, or 

 for the use of, any person not under his treatment in the regular course of his 

 professional work, nor in any case otherwise than may be required by such work. 

 No practitioner of veterinary medicine shall furnish or prescribe any drug, com 

 pound, or preparation aforesaid for the use of any human being, or when he has 

 reasonable ground fo'r believing that the drug, compound, or preparation afore- 

 said is desired or intended for the use of any human being: Provided further, 

 That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to give to dentists or 

 to practitioners of veterinary medicine the right to furnish or prescribe any 

 drug, compound, or preparation whatsoever otherwise than as is usual and cus- 

 tomary in the practice of dentistry and veterinary medicine, respectively. 



13. The sale and labeling of poisons. It shall be unlawful for any person to 

 sell or deliver to any other person any of the following-described substances, or 

 any poisonous compound, combination, or preparation thereof, to wit: The com- 

 pounds of and salts of antimony, arsenic, barium, chromium, copper, gold, lead, 

 mercury, silver, and zinc ; the caustic hydrates of sodium and potassium, solu- 

 tion or water of ammonia, methyl alcohol, paregoric, the concentrated mineral 

 acids, oxalic and hydrocyanic acids and their salts, yellow phosphorus, Paris 

 green, carbolic acid, the essential oils of almonds, pennyroyal, tancy. rue, and 

 savin; croton oil, creosote, chloroform, cantharides, or aconite, belladonna, bitter 

 almonds, colchicum, cotton root, cocculus indicus, conium, cannabis indica, digi- 

 talis, ergot, hyoscyamus, ignatia, lobelia, mix vomica, physostigma, phytolacca, 

 strophanthus, stramonium, veratrum viride, or any of the poisonous alkaloids or 

 alkaloidal salts derived from the foregoing, or any other poisonous alkaloids 

 or their salts, or any other virulent poison, except in the manner following, and, 

 moreover, if the applicant be less than eighteen years of age, except upon the 

 written order of a person known or believed to be an adult. 



It shall first be learned, by due inquiry, that the person to whom delivery is 

 about to be made is aware of the poisonous character of the substance, and that 

 it is desired for a lawful purpose, and the box, bottle, or other package shall 

 be plainly labeled with the name of the substance, the word " poison," the name 

 of at least one suitable antidote when practicable, and the name and address 

 of the person, firm, or corporation dispensing the substance. And before 

 delivery be made of any of the foregoing substances, excepting solution or 

 water of ammonia, and sulphate of copper, there shall be recorded in a 

 book kept for that purpose the name of the article, the quantity delivered 

 the purpose for which it is to be used, the date of delivery, the name and 

 address of the person for whom it is procured, and the name of the 

 individual personally dispensing the same; and said book shall be preserved by 

 the owner thereof for at least three years after the date of the last entry 

 therein. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to articles dispensed upon 

 the order of persons believed by the dispenser to be lawfully authorized prac- 

 titioners of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary surgery : Provided, That when 

 a physician writes upon his prescription a request that it be marked or labeled 

 " poison," the pharmacist shall, in the case of liquids, place the same in a 

 colored glass, roughened bottle, of the kind commonly known in trade as a 

 " poison bottle," and, in the case of dry substances, he shall place a poison label 

 upon the container. The record of sale and delivery above mentioned shall 

 not be required of manufacturers and wholesalers who shall sell any of the 

 foregoing substances at wholesale to licensed pharmacists, but the box, bottle, 

 or other package containing such substance, when sold at wholesale, shall be 

 properly labeled with the name of the substance, the word " poison," and the 

 name and address of the manufacturer or wholesaler: Provided further, That 



