OF THE 



UNIVERSITY 



OF ' 



INDIANA. 



It is the duty of the State board of health to enforce the laws of 

 the State relating to drug adulteration and the State health officer 

 is inspector of drugs. An effort is being made to enforce the law. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



8. Retail sale of poisons only by registered pharmacist; exceptions. It shall 

 be unlawful for any person to conduct a store or pharmacy in which is sold at 

 retail, or to sell at retail, any chemical, drug or medicine, which is poisonous, 

 or which contains a poison, or to compound for sale at retail, any physician's 

 prescription, unless there be in charge a Registered Pharmacist, or a Registered 

 Assistant Pharmacist, under the provisions of this act. And, Provided, That 

 nothing in this act shall apply to, nor in any manner interfere with the business 

 of a regularly licensed physician in compounding for and supplying his patients 

 with such medicines as may seem to him proper in his professional capacity 

 as a physician. And, Provided, That nothing in this act shall apply to, nor in any 

 manner interfere with the business of a general merchant in selling any of the 

 following articles, to-wit : Patent or proprietary medicines, which are not poi- 

 sonous, paregoric, hive syrup, spirit of camphor, Epsom salts, tincture of arnica, 

 compound cathartic pills, Paris green, London purple, white hellebore, con- 

 centrated lye, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, tobacco, spices, perfumes, 

 flavoring extracts, borax, copperas, alum, sulphate of quinine, or any chemicals 

 or preparations commonly employed as dye stuffs or insecticides, and such other 

 articles as may from time to time be allowed by the Board of Pharmacy. 



9. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 8 of this 

 act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall 

 Itc fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars 

 for each offense. 



Acts 1899, p. 103. 



581. Provision as to sale of opium, morphine and cocaine. It shall be unlaw- 

 ful for any druggist or druggist's clerk to sell, barter, trade or give away any 

 opium, morphine or cocaine to any person addicted to the habitual use of opium, 

 morphine or cocaine, unless such person secure a written prescription therefor 

 from a licensed physician. Any person violating any provision of this section 

 shall, on conviction, be fined for each separate offense in any sum not less than 

 ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Acts 1905, p. 722. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



'539. Prohibition; dru</ defined, adulteration defined; duty of State board of 

 health; samples; penalties. No person shall, within this state, manufacture 

 for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article of food which is adulterated. 



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