MARYLAND. 



Violations of the laws relative to drug adulterations are investi- 

 gated, as are other criminal acts in general, by the several State attor- 

 neys and grand juries, and little, if any, effort is made to enforce the 

 law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



141. Charge of drug stores; penalty. No person shall open, conduct or keep a 

 pharmacy in this State, either as a principal or agent, unless such person shall 

 have obtained a pharmacist's certificate, as hereinafter provided, and no phar- 

 macy shall at any time be left in charge of any person who is not a certified 

 pharmacist, a certified acting pharmacist or a certified assistant pharmacist, to 

 compound prescriptions or sell or dispense poisonous drugs. It shall, however, 

 be lawful for physicians and dentists to compound and dispense their own pre- 

 scriptions ; but unlawful for any person, dealer or firm, not a certified pharma- 

 cist, a certified acting pharmacist or certified assistant pharmacist, to com- 

 pound a physician's prescription. Any person violating this section shall, upon 

 conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not more than one 

 hundred dollars for each offence. 



142. Definition of "pharmacy" Every store or shop where drugs, medicines 

 or chemicals are sold at retail, displayed for sale at retail, where physicians' 

 prescriptions are compounded, which has upon it or in it as a sign, the words 

 " Pharmacist," " Pharmacy," " Apothecary," " Drug Store," " Druggist," or any 

 of these words or exhibits the characteristic show bottles or globes filled with 

 colored liquids, shall be considered a pharmacy within the meaning of this sub- 

 title, 



151. Physician to have same privileges as registered pharmacist. Nothing 

 in this sub-title shall prevent regularly licensed physicians of the State of Mary- 

 land from selling and compounding drugs and medicines as a pharmacist. 



152. Talbot County accepted. This sub-title shall repeal and supersede all 

 prior acts and parts of acts pertaining to the practice of pharmacy in this State, 

 but shall not apply to Talbot county. 



153. Exceptions. Nothing, however, in this sub-title shall be construed as 

 preventing general merchants of the counties of the State or of Baltimore city 

 from selling such drugs and medicines as have heretofore been handled by the 

 general merchants of the State, of Maryland, or any registered physician of this 

 State from personally compounding and dispensing drugs and medicines. Laws 

 1902, p. 276 et seq. 



Public General Laws, 1904, vol. 1, p. 1250 et seq. 

 SALE OF POISONS. 



362. Label. It shall be unlawful for any person, to retail any of the follow- 

 ing poisons : arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipi- 

 tate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic 



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