NEW YORK. 



The State board of health is authorized to conduct such investi- 

 gations of the quality of drugs sold as may be necessary to secure the 

 enforcement of the law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



194. Subdivision 1. Pharmacy defined. From and after the passage of this 

 act every place in which drugs, medicines or poisons are retailed or dispensed 

 or physicians' prescriptions compounded shall be deemed to be a pharmacy, 

 or a drug store, and the same shall be under the personal supervision of a 

 licensed pharmacist or druggist respectively; 



Subdivision 8. Unlaicful to engage in drug business without certificate from 

 loard of pharmacy. Except as prescribed in this act, it shall not be lawful 

 for any person to practice as a pharmacist, assistant pharmacist or druggist 

 or to engage in, conduct, carry on or be employed in the dispensing, compound- 

 ing or retailing of drugs, medicines or poisons within this state. 



Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws (Birdseye), 1901, vol. 2, 



p. 2859-28GO. 



199. Application of act limited. This article shall not apply to the practice 

 of a practitioner of medicine who is not the proprietor of a store for the dis- 

 pensing or retailing of drugs, medicines and poisons, or who is not in the employ 

 of such a proprietor, and shall not prevent practitioners of medicine from sup- 

 plying their patients \vith such articles as they may deem proper, and except 

 as to the labeling of poisons it shall not apply to the sale of medicines or poisons 

 at wholesale when not for the use or consumption of the purchaser, or to the 

 sale of paris green, white hellebore and other poisons for destroying insects, 

 or any substance for use in the arts, or to the manufacture and sale of pro- 

 prietary medicines, or to the sale by merchants of ammonia, bicarbonate of 

 soda, borax, camphor, castor oil, cream of tartar, dye stuffs, essence of ginger, 

 essence of peppermint, essence of wintergreen, non-poisonous flavoring essence 

 or extracts, glycerine, licorice, olive oil, salammoniac, salt petre, salsoda, 

 epsom salts, rochelle salts, and sulphur, except as herein provided. Provided, 

 however, that in the several places in this state outside of incorporated cities 

 and villages, and in incorporated villages of the fourth class, said places and 

 villages not having therein or within three miles thereof a regularly licensed 

 pharmacy or drug store, physicians may compound medicines, fill prescriptions, 

 and sell poisons, duly labeling the same as required by this act, and merchants 

 and retail dealers may sell the ordinary non-poisonous domestic remedies. Any 

 division of the state board of pharmacy, having within its territory any such 

 village or place, shall, whenever the necessity therefor is shown to exist, grant 

 to some resident therein, who has had experience in dealing in drugs, medicines 

 and poisons, a permit to compound medicines, fill prescriptions and sell poison 

 for a period not exceeding one year, upon the payment of a fee not exceeding 



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