88 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



tartar emetic, tincture of aconite, tincture of belladonna, tincture of digitalis, 

 tincture of nux vomica, tincture of veratrum viride, crystals of carbolic acid 

 or a strong solution of carbolic acid, without the written prescription of a 

 physician, shall keep a record of such sale, the name and quantity of the 

 article sold, and the name and residence of the person or persons to whom it 

 was delivered, which record shall be made before the article is delivered, and 

 shall at all times be open to inspection by the police authorities and officers of 

 cities and towns; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except to 

 dentists or on the prescription of a physician. Whoever neglects to keep or 

 refuses to show to said officers such record shall be punished by fine not 

 exceeding fifty dollars. Whoever sells any of the poisonous articles named in 

 this section without the written prescription of a physician, shall affix to the 

 bottle, box or wrapper containing the article sold a label of red paper, upon 

 which shall be printed in large letters the word " poison," and also the word 

 " antidote," and the name and place of business of the vendor. The name of 

 an antidote, if there be any, for the poison sold, shall also be upon the label. 

 Every neglect to affix such label to such poisonous article sold before the 

 delivery thereof to the purchaser shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 

 fifty dollars. Whoever purchases poisons as aforesaid and gives a false or 

 fictitious name to the vendor shall be punished by fine not exceding fifty 

 dollars. But nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to wholesale 

 dealers or to manufacturing chemists in their sales to retail trade, nor to the 

 general merchant, nor to a firm or corporation in trade, who may soil in 

 unbroken packages prepared by the manufacturers, Paris green, London purple 

 or other poisonous preparations or compounds used for the destruction of 

 bugs, beetles, insects, slugs, grubs, caterpillars or worms. Upon each and every 

 package so sold shall be printed in large letters the word " poison." Every 

 neglect to affix such label with the word " poison " thereon to such poisonous 

 article before the delivery thereof to the purchaser shall be punished by fine 

 not exceeding fifty dollars. Laics 1899, Public, p. 101. 



Revised Statutes, 1903, p. 348. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



15. Substitutions in prescriptions; penalty. Whoever, engaged in the business 

 of an apothecary, knowingly uses any drugs or ingredients in preparing or 

 compounding a written prescription of any physician different from those 

 named in the prescription, shall upon conviction be fined not less than five, nor 

 more than one hundred dollars. 



16. Manufacture and sale of adulterated drugs; penalty. W T hoever fraudu- 

 lently adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine, or sells any 

 fraudulently adulterated drug or medicine, knowing the same to be adulterated, 

 shall be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, or by fine 

 not exceeding four hundred dollars ; and such adulterated drugs and medicine 

 shall be forfeited, and destroyed under the direction of the court. Laws 1899, 

 PuUic, p. 101.. 



Revised Statutes, 1903, p. 347. 



