ILLINOIS. 



The State board of pharmacy is authorized to employ a chemist to 

 examine into suspected adulterations and may prosecute offenders 

 against the law. An effort is made to enforce the law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Conduct of drug stores. It shall be unlawful for any person, not a regis- 

 tered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to open or conduct any phar- 

 macy, dispensary, drug store, apothecary shop, or store, for the purpose of 

 retailing, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines or poisons, and any per- 

 son violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not 

 less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for every such violation : 

 Provided, however, that nothing in this act will prevent any person or persons 

 owning a drug store or pharmacy who shall employ and place in active and per- 

 sonal charge of the same a registered pharmacist, and that nothing herein con- 

 tained shall apply to nor in any manner interfere with the practice of any 

 physician, or prevent him from supplying to his patients such articles as may 

 seem to him proper ; nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any whole- 

 sale druggist : Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall apply to the 

 sale of patent or proprietary preparations when sold in original and unbroken 

 packages. 



2. Compounding and dispensing drugs. It shall be unlawful for the proprie- 

 tor of any drug store or pharmacy to allow any person in his employ, except a 

 registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist, to compound, recom- 

 mend, dispense, or sell at retail, drugs, medicines or poisons, or except an ap- 

 prentice under the immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist as herein- 

 after provided. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be 

 liable to a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for 

 each and every such offense. 



Laws 1901, p. 238. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



62. Labels; penalty. Every druggist or other person who shall sell and 

 deliver any arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid or other sub- 

 stance or liquid usually denominated as poisonous, without having the word 

 " poison " written or printed upon a label attached to the phial or parcel in 

 which such drug is contained, or shall sell and deliver any drug or medicine 

 other than upon the prescription of a physician, without haying the name of such 

 drug or medicine printed or written upon a label attached to the phial or parcel 

 containing the same, shall be fined not exceeding $25. (Laws 1853, p. 215.) 



63. Records; penalty. If any druggist or other person sells or gives away any 

 arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate or prussic acid without the written 

 prescription of a physician, and Tails to keep a record of the date of such sale or 

 gift, the article, and amount thereof sold or given away, and the person to whom 



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