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work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, 

 quality or purity prescribed in such work. 3. If its strength, quality or purity 

 falls below r the professed standard under which it is sold. 



20. Samples for analysis to be furnished on demand. Whoever offers ot 

 exposes for sale or delivers to a purchaser any drug or article of food shall, 

 upon application of an inspector, analyst or other officer or agent of the state 

 board of health and upon tender to him of the value thereof, furnish a sample 

 sufficient for the analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his 

 possession. Laics .1882, p. 206 et seq. 



21. Portion of sample to be reserved. Before such sample is analyzed, a por- 

 tion thereof shall be reserved and sealed by the analyst ; and, upo-n a complaint 

 against any person, such reserved portion shall, upon application, be delivered 

 to the defendant or his attorney. Lairs 1884, P- 269. 



26. Penalty. Whoever, for the purpose of sale, fraudulently adulterates any 

 drug or medicine, or sells any fraudulently adulterated drug or medicine, know- 

 ing it to be adulterated, shall be punished by a fine of not more than four hun- 

 dred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year ; and such adulter- 

 ated drugs and medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed under the direction 

 of the court. 



27. Provision as to changes in standard. If the standard of strength or purity 

 of any drug has been raised since the issue of the last edition of the United 

 States pharmacopoeia, no prosecution relative to it shall be maintained until 

 such change of standard has been published throughout the commonwealth. 

 Laws 1884, p. 268. 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 659-662. 



4. J'rnccr* and duties of State Ixxtrtl of health. Said board shall take cogni- 

 zance of the interests of health and life among the citizens of the commonwealth, 

 make sanitary investigations and inquiries relative to the causes of disease, and 

 especially of epidemics, the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, 

 employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health, and relative 

 to the sale of drugs and food and the adulterations thereof; and shall gather 

 such information relative thereto as it considers proper for diffusion among 

 the people. * * * 



5. Appointment of inspectors and chemists; penalty for hindering inspector. 

 In the performance of its duties relative to the sale of drugs and food it may 

 appoint inspectors, analysts and chemists, arid may remove them. Such in- 

 spectors shall have the same power and authority relative to drugs and food as 

 is given by sections forty-two and fifty-two of chapter fifty-six, relative to milk, 

 to the inspectors named therein. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way 

 interferes with any such inspector, analyst or other officer appointed under the 

 provisions of this section, while in the performance of his official duty, shall 

 be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and of 

 not more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 657-658. 



ADULTERATION OF MEDICINAL LIQUORS. 



[The following special provision is made relative to the quality of liquors sold 

 by druggists for medicinal purposes under sixth class liquor licenses:] 



17. Medicinal liquors must l)c free from adulteration. " Third, That spirit- 

 uous or intoxicating liquor shall not be sold, exchanged or delivered, or exposed, 

 offered or kept for sale, exchange or delivery, upon the licensed premises, unless 



