NEBRASKA. 



The law specificalty charges the State board of pharmacy with the 

 enforcement of the pure drug law, but it can act only on complaint 

 being entered. No means are provided, however, for its execution, 

 and the board finds it very difficult to make much progress. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



4370. Compounding and vending drugs ; penalty ; proviso. Any proprietor of a 

 pharmacy, who not being a registered pharmacist, shall fail or neglect to place 

 in charge of such pharmacy a registered pharmacist, or any such proprietor 

 who shall by himself or any person, permit the compounding or dispensing of 

 prescriptions or the vending of drugs, medicines, or poisons in his store or place 

 of business, except by or in the presence of, or in and under the supervision of a 

 registered pharmacist; or any person not being a registered pharmacist who 

 shall take charge of or act as manager of such pharmacy or store, or who not 

 being a registered pharmacist shall retail, compound or dispense drugs, poisons 

 or medicines of any kind, or any person violating any provisions of this act 

 to which no other penalty is herein attached shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 d<Miieanor and for every such offense, and upon convict ion thereof, shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, 

 or shall be iniprisoned not less than ten days nor more than ninety days; Pro- 

 vided, That nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prohibit a registered 

 pharmacist from taking an apprentice to learn the business of pharmacy. (Laws 

 1889, p. 56 //.) 



4371. Exceptions. Nothing in this act shall prevent any wholesale or retail 

 dealers in any business from selling any patent or proprietary medicines, nor 

 any resident registered physician from dispensing his own medicines on his 

 own prescriptions. 



Compiled Statutes, 1005, p. 1085-1080. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



7677. Record; label; not sold to minors. Every apothecary, druggist, or other 

 person who shall sell or give away, except upon the prescription of a physi- 

 cian, any article or articles of medicine belonging to the class usually known 

 as poisons, shall be required : First, To register, in a book kept for that purpose, 

 the name, age, sex, and color of the person obtaining such poison. Nccoml, The 

 quantity sold. Third, The purpose for which it is required. Fourth, The day 

 and date oiv which it was obtained. Fifth, The name and place of abode of the 

 Hie person for whom the article is intended. SiiFth, To carefully mark the word 

 " prison " upon the label or wrapper of each package. Seventh, To neither sell 

 or give away any article of poison to minors of either sex. 



7678. Kni<tll (juantities of " urxcnic " to he mi. red irith soot or indigo before 

 delivering to purchaser. No apothecary, druggist, or other person shall !>r 

 permitted to sell, or give away, any quantity of arsenic less than one pound, 

 without first mixing either soot or indigo therewith, in the proportion of one 

 ounce of soot or half an ounce of indigo to the pound of arsenic. 



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