72 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



14. Labels, record, penalty. It shall bo unlawful for any person, from and 

 after the passage of this Act, to retail any of the following poisons, except as 

 follows: Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, 

 biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, and 

 all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts; essential oil of bitter 

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

 of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce ; aconite, belladonna, 

 colchicum, conium, mix vomica, henbane, savine, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, 

 creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloro- 

 form, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and oxalic 

 acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel, or paper in which the said 

 poison is contained with the name of the article, the word " poison ", and the 

 name and the place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any regis- 

 tered pharmacist or other person to sell any of the poisons above enumerated 

 without, before delivering the same to the purchaser, causing an entry to be 

 made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date of sale, the name and 

 address of the purchaser, the name of the poison sold, the purpose for which 

 it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser, 

 such a book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities and to 

 be preserved for at least five years. The provisions of this section shall not 

 apply to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual quantities, or doses, upon the 

 prescription of practitioners of medicine. Any violation of the pro visions of 

 this section shall make/ the offender liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five 

 dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction for the 

 second offense, in addition to the fine he shall have his name stricken from the 

 register. Approved, April 28, 190Jf. 



U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 33, pt. 1, p. 550 et seq. 



