MISSISSIPPI. 



Special authority to investigate alleged violations of the drug law 

 is not delegated to any officer and no effort appears to be made to 

 enforce the law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1258. Penalty fur practicing without license. If any person shall practice 

 as an attorney and counsellor at law, or shall practice as a physician or sur- 

 geon, or shall practice as a dentist, or shall practice as a pharmacist, without 

 having first been examined and obtained a license as required by law, he shall, 

 on conviction, be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred 

 dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. 



Annotated Code, 1892, p. 368. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1248. Restrictions. It shall not be lawful for any apothecary, druggist, or 

 other person to sell or give away any article belonging to the class of medicines 

 usually denominated poisons, except in compliance with the two following 

 sections. 



1249. Record; label. Every druggist, apothecary, or other person, who shall 

 sell or give away, except upon the written prescription of a physician, any 

 article of medicine belonging to the class usually known as poisons, shall be 

 required to register in a book kept for that purpose, the name, place of resi- 

 dence, age, sex, and color of the person obtaining such poison, the quantity 

 sold, the purpose for which it was required, the day and date on which it was 

 obtained, and the name and place of abode of the person for whom the article 

 is intended ; and he shall carefully mark the word " poison " upon the label 

 or wrapper of each package. 



1250. Arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo. A druggist, apothecary, or 

 other person shall not sell or give away, except to physicians, any quantity of 

 arsenic less than one pound without first mixing soot or indigo therewith in 

 the proportion of one ounce of soot or half an ounce of indigo to the pound of 

 arsenic. 



1251. Penalty. Any druggist or apothecary, or other person, who shall offend 

 against the provisions of the last section or the one before the last, shall, on 

 conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the 

 county jail twenty days, or both. 



1252. Not to be sold to minors. A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall 

 not sell or give away any poison to any minor, and for so doing he shall be 

 punished as for a misdemeanor. 



Annotated Code, 1892, p. 3G7-S. 



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