LOUISIANA. 



It is the duty of the State board of health to make investigations 

 and analyses of drugs when considered necessary and report upon 

 its findings. Dr. G. F. Patton, secretary of the State board of health, 

 states that " the enforcement of the law relative to adulteration of 

 drugs rests with the municipal authorities." 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Conduct of drug business. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any other 

 than a registered pharmacist to compound medicines, drugs or chemicals, or to 

 institute or conduct any apothecary or drug store, or pharmacy shop for com- 

 pounding drugs, medicines or chemicals, or for any person to be employed 

 therein, or placed in charge thereof, for the purpose of compounding drugs or 

 chemicals under prescriptions or otherwise. 



3. Exceptions. ; provided, that nothing contained in this act 



shall in any manner whatever interfere with the business of any registered 

 practitioner of medicine, nor in any way prevent him from administering or 

 supplying his patients with such drugs and medicines as he may deem fit and 

 proper, nor shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary 

 remedies, popularly called patent medicines, nor prevent storekeepers from 

 dealing in and selling the commonly-used standard medicines and poisons, if all 

 such standard medicines and poisons included in this section, conform in all 

 respects to the requirements of section seven. Nor shall this act apply to any 

 planter furnishing medicines to hands in his employment or leasing lauds from 

 him. Laws 1888, p. 7//-7J. 



Revised Laws (Wolff), 1904, vol. 2, p. 1232. 



REGULATIONS AS TO LABELING. 



7. Drugs and poisons. All pharmacists, druggists or apothecaries, shall label 

 all bottles, vials, jars, boxes, parcels, packages, or other receptacles, or cover- 

 ings, or wrappings of drugs, medicines or chemicals sold or dispensed by them, 

 with a label in a legible writing or printed letters, giving the name of the 

 proprietor of the store, the name of the physician prescribing, or shop and the 

 place of sale of said drug, medicine or chemical ; and in case the medicine, drug 

 or chemical be of a nature poisonous to the human system or to animals, said 

 label shall have printed thereon a skull and cross bones, with the word " Poison " 

 in large, heavy lettering. All prescriptions shall have in addition thereto, a 

 number, the name of the person -actually and personally compounding the same, 

 the directions for its use internally or externally, and the date of its compound- 

 ing. 



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