MAINE. 



No special provision is made for the enforcement of the law regu- 

 lating adulterated drugs and medicines. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



11. Compounding and vending of drugs. No store shall be kept open for the 

 sale of medicines or poisons, or for compounding physicians' prescriptions, nor 

 shall drugs or medicines be exposed or displayed for sale in any store, except 

 as otherwise provided herein, unless the same is placed and kept under the 

 personal control and supervision of a registered apothecary or qualified assist- 

 ant, but such store may be under the charge of a qualified assistant during the 

 temporary absence of such registered apothecary. 



12. Penalty. Whoever engages in or is found in charge of or carrying on a 

 business, or displays any drugs, medicines, drug store fittings or furnishings, 

 or any sign recognized as peculiar to a drug store to- give the appearance of an 

 apothecary shop, or claims to be or represents himself to be an apothecary, cpn- 

 trary to the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to a penalty of fifty 

 dollars a month for the first offense, and one hundred dollars a month for each 

 and every subsequent offense, whether for continuance in said business or for 

 engaging anew therein in violation of the provisions of this chapter. The 

 county attorney in each county upon complaint made by any one of said com- 

 missioners shall prosecute all violations of the provisions of this chapter. 



13. Pharmacy law shall apply to women; exemptions. The provisions of this 

 chapter shall apply to women who enter upon and carry on the business of 

 apothecaries. This chapter shall not apply to physicians who prepare and dis- 

 pense their own medicines, nor to the sale of non-poisonous domestic remedies 

 and patent or propriet'ary preparations usually sold by grocers and others. 



14. Any person may conduct drug store provided a registered pharmacist is 

 given full charge of compounding and dispensing. Any person may enter upon 

 the business of an apothecary without the certificate required by this chapter; 

 provided, he does not personally do the duties of an apothecary, but employs 

 a duly registered apothecary who has sole charge of compounding, putting up 

 and dispensing medicines and drugs under the provisions hereof. Laws 1899, 

 Public, p. 106. 



Revised Statutes, 1903, p. 347. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



17. Record; labels; penalty. Whoever sells arsenic, arsenious acid, atropia 

 or any of its salts, chloral hydrate, chloroform, cotton root and its fluid extracts, 

 Fowler's solution, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium, Donovan's solution, 

 ergot and its fluid extract, laudanum, McMunn's elixir, morphia or any of its 

 salts, sugar of lead, oil of savin, oil of tansy, opium, Parson's vermin extermina- 

 tor, phosphorus, prussic acid, rough on rats, strychnia or any of its salt?, 



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