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to either of said schedules. Every person who shall dispose of or sell at retail 

 or furnish any poisons included under Schedule A shall, before delivering the 

 same, make or cause to be made an entry in a book kept for that purpose, stating 

 the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and the 

 quantity of the poison, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser 

 to be required and the name of the dispenser, such book to be always open for 

 inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least five years 

 after the last entry. He shall not deliver any of said poisons without satisfy- 

 ing himself that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and that the 

 said poison is to be used for a legitimate purpose. The foregoing portions of this 

 section shall not apply to the dispensing of medicines or poisons on physicians' 

 prescriptions. Wholesale dealers in drugs, medicines, pharmaceutical prepara- 

 tions or chemicals shall affix or cause to be affixed to every bottle, box, parcel or 

 outer enclosure of an original package containing any of the articles enumerated 

 under said schedue A, a suitable label or brand in red ink with the word " poi- 

 son " upon it. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws (Birdseye), vol. 4, (Supple- 

 ment 1905), p. 223. 



405a. Prescriptions containing opium and morphine not to be refilled except 

 in certain cases. A person who, except upon the written or verbal order of a 

 physician, refills more than once prescriptions containing opium, morphine or 

 preparations of either, in which the dose of opium exceeds one-fourth grain or 

 morphine one-twentieth grain, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws (Birdseye), 1901, p. 1092. 

 ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



40. Definition of " drug ". * * * the term, drug, when so used shall include 

 all medicines for external and internal use. 



41. Adulterations prohibited and defined. No person shall, within the state, 

 manufacture, produce, compound, brew, distill, have, sell or offer for sale any 

 adulterated food or drug. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within 

 the meaning of this act : A. In the case of drugs : 



1. If when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States pharma- 

 copeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down 

 therein. 



2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States 

 pharmacopeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopeia or other stand- 

 ard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standards of 

 strength, quality or purity, laid down in such work. 



3. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which it 

 is sold. (Laws, 1881, p. 553; amended Laws, 1893, p. 1510.) 



41a. Adulteration of food, drugs, etc. A person who, either, 



1. With the intent that the same may be sold as adulterated or undiluted, 

 adulterates or dilutes wine, milk, distilled spirits or malt liquor, or any drug, 

 medicine, food or drink, for man or beast, or, 



2. Knowing that the same has been adulterated or diluted; offers for sale 

 or sells the same as unadulterated or undiluted, or without disclosing or in- 

 forming the purchaser that the same has been adulterated or diluted, in a case 



a So in Statutes. 



