90 , DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



acid, strychiflne and all other poisonous vegetables, alkaloids and their salts, 

 essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, aconite, belladonna, 

 colchicum, conium nux vomica, herbane, savine, ergot, cotton-root, cantharides, 

 creosote, digitalis and their pharmaceutical preparations, cotton a oil, chloro- 

 form, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and oxalic 

 acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper in which the said 

 poison is contained with the name of the article and the word " Poison " and 

 the name and place of business of the seller. 



363. Record; exception. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist 

 or other persons to sell any of the poisons in section 302 enumerated without 

 causing any entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date 

 of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name of the poison sold, the 

 purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the 

 name of the dispenser, such book to be always open for inspection by the proper 

 authorities, and to be preserved for at least five years. The provisions of this 

 section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual quantities or 

 doses, upon the prescription of practitioners of medicine. Any violation of the 

 provisions of sections 3G2 and 3G3 shall make the offender liable to a fine of not 

 less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars. I^nr* !!><>.!, ]>. x'i-1. 



Public General Laws, 1904, vol. 1, p. 896-897. 



237. Regulations governing sale of cocaine, eucaine, and morphine; penalty. 

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, -furnish or give 

 away any cocaine, salts of cocaine or preparations containing any cocaine or 

 salts of cocaine, or any morphine, eucaine, salts of eucaine, or preparations con- 

 taining any eucaine or salts of' eucaine, except upon the original written order 

 or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine, dentistry or 

 veterinary medicine, which order or prescription shall be dated and shall con- 

 tain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or, if ordered by a practitioner 

 of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, and 

 shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order. Such written 

 order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm 

 or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or pre- 

 scribed, and it shall not be recompounded or dispensed a second time, except 

 upon the written order of the original prescriber ; provided, however, that the 

 above provisions shall not apply to preparations containing not more than one- 

 half grain of morphine, not more than one-sixteenth grain of cocaine, in one 

 fluid ounce, or, if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce; provided, also, 

 that the above provisions shall not apply to preparations recommended in good 

 faith for diarrhoea and cholera, each bottle or package of which is accompanied 

 by specific directions for use, and a caution against habitual use, nor to lini- 

 ments or ointments when plainly labeled, "for external use only;" and, pro- 

 vided, further, that the above provisions shall not apply to sales at wholesale 

 by jobbers, wholesalers and manufacturers to retail druggists, nor to sales at 

 retail by retail druggists to regular practitioners of medicine, dentistry or 

 veterinary medicine, nor . to sales made to manufacturers of proprietary or 

 pharmaceutical preparations for use in the manufacture of such preparations, 

 nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions ; and, pro- 

 vided, further, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale 

 or manufacture of any bona fide patent or proprietary medicine. It shall be 



So in Laws. 



