MASSACHUSETTS. 



The State board of health administers the drug law, which is 

 Drobably better enforced than any other similar State law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



18. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, retails, compounds for sale or 

 dispenses for medicinal purposes or keeps or exposes for sale drugs, medicines, 

 chemicals or poisons, except as provided in section twenty-three, shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. But the provisions of this section 

 shall not prohibit the employment of apprentices or assistants Bunder the per- 

 sonal supervision of a registered pharmacist. 



23. Exceptions. The provisions of sections twenty-one to twenty-nine, inclu- 

 sive, of chapter one hundred (Note: These sections prescribe the manner in 

 which alcoholic liquors shall be sold under sixth-class licenses.}, section twenty- 

 six of chapter seventy-five and section two of chapter two hundred and thirteen 

 shall not apply to physicians who put up their own prescriptions or dispense 

 medicines to their patients ; nor to the sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals or 

 poisons at wholesale only ; nor to the manufacture or sale of patent and pro- 

 prietary medicines ; nor to the sale of non-poisonous domestic remedies usually 

 sold by grocers and others ; nor shall any unregistered member of a copartner- 

 ship be liable to the penalties hereof if he retails, compounds for sale or dis- 

 penses for medicinal purposes drugs, medicines, chemicals or poisons only 

 under the personal supervision of a registered pharmacist. The widow, execu- 

 tor or administrator of a registered pharmacist who has died or the wife of one 

 who has become incapacitated may continue his business under a registered 

 pharmacist. 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 087. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



2 Label; record; penalty; exemptions. Whoever sells arsenic (arsenious 

 acid), atropia or any of its salts, chloral hydrate, chloroform, cotton root and 

 its fluid extract, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium, Donovan's solution, 

 ergot and its fluid extract, Fowler's solution, laudanum, McMunu's elixir, 

 morphia or any of its salts, oil of pennyroyal, oil of savin, oil of tansy, opium, 

 Paris green, Parsons' vermin exterminator, phosphorus, prnssic acid, " rough 

 on rats ", strychnia or any of its salts, tartar emetic, tincture of aconite, tincture 

 of belladonna, tincture of digitalis, tincture of nux vomica, tincture of veratrum 

 viride, or carbolic acid, 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 black letters the name and place of 

 business of the vendor and the words Poison and Antidote, and the label shall 

 also contain the name of an antidote, if any, for the poison sold. He shall also 



a See also sec. 4, under " Patent Medicines," for cocaine law. 



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