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unlawful for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to 

 furnish to, or to subscribe for the use of any habitual user of the same, any 

 cocaine, eucaine or morphine, or any salts or compound of cocaine, eucaine ; or 

 morphine, or any preparation containing cocaine, eucaine or morphine or other 

 salts, and it shall be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to prescribe any 

 of the foregoing substances for any person not under his treatment in the regu- 

 lar line of his profession, or for any practitioner of veterinary medicine to pre- 

 scribe any of the foregoing substances for the use of any human being; pro- 

 vided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to 

 prevent any lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine from prescribing in 

 good faith for the use of any habitual user of narcotic drugs such substances as 

 he may deem necessary for the treatment of such habit. Any person who shall 

 knowingly violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction for the first offense shall be fined not 

 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and upon conviction 

 for a second offense shall be fined not less. than fifty dollars nor more than one 

 hundred dollars; and upon conviction for a third offense and all subsequent 

 offenses shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two 

 hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in jail for not more than six months; 

 it shall be the duty of the grand jury to make presentments for violation of this 

 section. (Laws 1904, P- 1051-1052.) 



Public General Laws, 1904, vol. 1, p. 857. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



135. Fraud a misdemeanor; penalty. Any person or corporation engaged in 

 the business of selling drugs, medicines, chemicals or preparations for medici- 

 nal use or of compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions, who shall, 

 in person or by his or its agents or employes, or as agent or employe of some 

 other person, knowingly sell or deliver to any person a drug, medicine, chem- 

 ical preparation for medicinal use, recognized or authorized by the latest edi- 

 tion of the United States pharmacopoeia, or prepared according to the private 

 formula of some individual firm, other or different from the drug, medicine, 

 chemical or preparation for medicinal use, recognized or authorized by the 

 latest edition of the United States pharmacopoeia, or prepared according to 

 the private formula of some individual or firm, ordered or called for by such 

 person, or called for in a physician's prescription, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less 

 than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by not less 

 than one month nor more than twelve months' imprisonment, or by both, 

 and any person so convicted shall forfeit the right to practice pharmacy 

 under any certificate or registration issued under the la\\s of this State. 

 (Laws 1902, p. 148.) 



Public General Laws, 1904, vol. 1, p. 824. 



196. Substitution of wood alcohol for ethyl alcohol; penalty. Any person, 

 firm or corporation engaged in the business of making, manufacturing, com- 

 pounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, medicinal or chemical preparations 

 for human consumption, who shall in person or by his, their or its agents or 

 employes, make, mix, manufacture, compound, dispense, sell, or deliver to any 

 person, any drug, medicine, medicinal or chemical preparation, intended for 

 internal use, wherein ethyl, or grain alcohol usually enters as part of, or is in 

 anywise employed in the making, mixing or manufacture, compounding or 



