FLORIDA. 



The commissioner of agriculture is charged with the enforcement 

 of the food and drug law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



817. Conduct of drug store. It shall be unlawful for any person not a reg- 

 istered pharmacist, within the meaning of this chapter, to conduct any phar- 

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

 in the State of Florida, of more than 200 inhabitants, or within two miles of 

 any incorporated city or town of more than 200 inhabitants, for the purpose of 

 retailing, compounding or dispensing medicines or poisons for medical use, 

 except as hereinafter provided. 



818. Compounding and dispensing drugs. It shall be unlawful for the propri- 

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

 Florida, of more than 200 inhabitants, or within two miles of any incorporated 

 city or town of more than 200 inhabitants, to allow any person except a regis- 

 tered pharmacist to compound or dispense the prescription of a physician, or to 

 retail or dispense any poison for medical use, except as an aid to, and under 

 the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Laws 1899, p. 108-109. 



Revised Statutes, 1892, p. 322. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



822. Restrictions; labeling; penult y. It shall be unlawful for any person not 

 a registered pharmacist to retail any poisons enumerated below: Arsenic and 

 all its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white and red precipitate, biniodide 

 of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, and all other 

 poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, and the essential oil of almonds, 

 opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of opium 

 containing less than two grains to the ounce, aconite, belladonna, colchicum, 

 conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, 

 veratrum, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chlo- 

 roform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic and oxalic 

 acids ; and he shall label the" box, vessel or paper in which said poison is con- 

 tained with the name of the article, the word poison, and the name and place 

 of business of the seller; nor shall it be lawful for any person to deliver or 

 sell any poisons enumerated above unless upon due inquiry it be found that the 

 purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be 

 used for a legitimate purpose. The provisions of this section shall not apply 

 to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual quantities or doses upon the pre- 

 scriptions of practitioners of medicine. Any violation of this section shall 

 make the principal of said store liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars or 

 more than one hundred dollars: Provided, however, that this section shall not 

 apply to manufacturers making and selling at wholesale any of the above 

 poisons : And provided, that each box, vessel or paper in which said poison is 



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