GEORGIA. 



The State board of pharmacy has authority to examine into alleged 

 violations of the law and to prosecute offenders. The appropriations 

 for the enforcement of the law have been too small in recent years to 

 permit the employment of an inspector, but an effort is made to 

 enforce the law when violations are brought to the attention of the 

 board of pharmacy. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1499. Compounding or vending of medicines; exceptions. No person shall 

 engage in the compounding or vending of medicines, drugs, or poisons within 

 this State without a full compliance with this article (that is without securing 

 a license from the State Board of Pharmacy), except 



1. Such druggists as are exempted from the operations of the present law by 

 the statutes of the State of Georgia, and such druggists as have heretofore 

 obtained license, and are legally authorized by existing laws to compound and 

 vend drugs, poisons, and chemicals. 



2. Physicians putting up their own prescriptions, and dispensing medicines 

 from their own office. 



3. Merchants selling family medicines not poison, as prescribed and allowed 

 by the Code of Georgia. 



4. Assistants in drug-stores where the manager has complied with the re- 

 quirements of this Article. 



Code, 1895, vol. 1, p. 411. 



480. Illegal sales a misdemeanor. Any person who shall engage in the com- 

 pounding or vending of medicines, drugs or poisons, without first having com- 

 plied with the law authorizing the same, or shall register fraudulently, shall 

 be punished as for a misdemeanor. In prosecutions under this section, the 

 budren shall be upon the defendant to show his authority. (Acts 1880-1881, 

 p. 186.) 



Code 1895, vol. 3, p. 141. 



3866. Mistake of druggist ground for damages. If a vendor of drugs and 

 medicines, by himself or his agent, either knowingly or negligently furnishes 

 the wrong article or medicine, and damage accrues from the use of the drug 

 or medicine furnished, to the purchaser, or his patients, or his family, or his 

 property, the vendor shall respond in damages for the injury done. If death 

 ensues to the purchaser, in any case arising under this or the two foregoing 

 paragraphs, the right of action shall be to the widow or children, as prescribed 

 in cases of physical injuries. 



Code, 1895, vol. 2, p. 889. 



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