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tions known as patent or proprietary medicines. Any person who shall know- 

 ingly, willfully or fraudulently falsify or adulterate, or cause to be falsified or 

 adulterated, any drug or medicinal substance, or any preparation authorized 

 or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or used or intended 

 to be used in medical practice; or shall mix or caused to be mixed with any 

 such drug or medicinal substance, any foreign or inert substance whatsoever, 

 for the purpose of destroying or weakening its medicinal power and effect, or 

 of lessening its cost, and shall willfully, knowingly or fraudulently sell, or 

 cause the same to be sold, for medicinal purposes, shall be liable to a penalty 

 of not less than fifty (50) dollars, nor more than one hundred anft fifty (150) 

 dollars for each and every such offense. (Laws 1885, p. 183, as amended 1891 

 and 1899.) 



Statutes, 1894, vol. 2, p. 2087 (as amended). 



6620. Omitting to label drugs, or labeling them wrongly is a misdemeanor. 

 An apothecary or druggist, or a person employed as clerk, or salesman, by an 

 apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs 

 or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines, or making up any 

 prescription, or filling any order for drugs or medicines, willfully, negligently, 

 or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts any untrue label, stamp, or other 

 designation of contents upon any box, bottle, or other package containing a 

 drug or medicine, or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed 

 or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that pre- 

 scribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or 

 order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or 

 health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Statutes, 1894, vol. 2, p. 1765. 



6625. Adulteration a misdemeanor. A person who either with intent that 

 the same may be sold as unadulterated or undiluted, adulterates or dilutes 

 wine, milk, distilled spirits or malt liquor, or any drug, medicine, food or drink, 

 for man or beast; or knowing that the same has been adulterated or diluted, 

 offers for sale or sells the same as unadulterated or undiluted, or without dis- 

 closing or informing the purchaser that the same has been adulterated or diluted, 

 in a case where special provision has not been otherwise made by statute for the 

 punishment of the offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



6626. Kale of umoholesome medicine a misdemeanor. A person who, with 

 intent that the same may be used as food, drink, or medicine, sells, or offers, 

 or exposes for sale, any article whatever which to his knowledge is tainted or 

 spoiled, or for any cause unfit to be used as such food, drink, or medicine, is 

 guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Statutes, 1894, vol. 2, p. 1767. 



6297. Penalty. The person convicted of a crime declared to be a misdemeanor, 

 for which no other punishment is prescribed by this or by any statutory pro- 

 vision in force at the time of the conviction and sentence, is punishable by 

 imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or by a fine 

 of not more than one hundred dollars. 



Statutes, 1894, vol. 2, p. 1704. 



