, IOWA. 



The law relating to the adulteration of drugs does not specifically 

 charge any officer with its enforcement. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



2588. Compounding medicines, poisons, etc.; labels; penalty. No person not a 

 registered pharmacist shall conduct the business of selling at retail, com- 

 pounding or dispensing drugs, medicines or poisons, or chemicals for medicinal 

 use, or compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions as a pharmacist, 

 nor allow any one who is not a registered pharmacist to so sell, compound or 

 dispense such drugs, medicines, poisons or chemicals, or physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, except such as are assistants to and under the supervision of one who is 

 a registered pharmacist, and physicians who dispense their own prescriptions 

 only ; but no one shall be prohibited by anything contained in this chapter from 

 keeping and selling proprietary medicines and such other domestic remedies 

 as do not contain intoxicating liquors or poisons, nor from selling concentrated 

 lye or potash having written or printed on the package or parcel its true name 

 and the word " poison," sales of which need not be registered. Whoever 

 violates either provision of this section, for the former shall pay five dollars 

 for each day of its violation, to be recovered in an action in the name of the 

 State, brought by the county attorney under the direction of the commission, 

 and for the latter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished accordingly. 

 In actions or prosecutions under this chapter it need not be proven that 

 the defendant has not a pharmacist's certificate, but such fact shall be a matter 

 of defense. 



Code, 1897, p. 897. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



2593. Schedules; labels; records; penalty. No person shall sell at retail any 

 poisons enumerated in schedules A and B, except in dispensing poisons in usual 

 quantities or doses upon the prescription of a physician as follows: Schedule 

 A. Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive-sublimate, white precipitate, red 

 precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, 

 strychnia and other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil 

 of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations except paregoric and other prep- 

 arations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. Schedule B. 

 Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cot- 

 ton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, 

 croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic 

 acid and oxalic acid. Unless the package containing such poisons has placed 

 thereon, and also on the outside wrapper or cover, the name of the article, the 

 word " poison," and the name and place of business of the seller ; nor sell or 

 deliver such poison unless, upon due inquiry, it be found that the party receiv- 

 ing it is aware of its character and represents it is to be used for proper pur- 

 poses ; nor sell or deliver any of the poisons included in schedule A without 



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