OHIO. 



The State dairy and food commissioner is authorized in a general 

 way to inspect drugs and enforce the law prohibiting the sale of 

 adulterated drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



4405. Exclusive rights defined; exceptions. It shall be unlawful for any per- 

 son not a legally registered pharmacist to open, or conduct, any pharmacy, or 

 retail drug or chemical store, either as proprietor or manager thereof, unless he 

 shall have in his employ and place in charge of such pharmacy, or store, a 

 legally registered pharmacist under the laws of this state. It shall be unlawful 

 for any person, not a legally registered pharmacist, to compound, dispense, or 

 sell any drug, chemical, poison, or pharmaceutical preparation, upon the pre- 

 scription of a physician or otherwise ; provided, however, that a legally regis- 

 tered assistant pharmacist may compound, dispense or sell, any such drug, 

 chemical, poison, or pharmaceutical preparation when employed in a pharmacy 

 or drug (store) which is under the supervision, management and control of a 

 legally registered pharmacist. Provided also, that nothing in this section shall 

 apply to, or in any manner interfere with the business of a physician, or pre- 

 vent him from supplying to his patients such medicines as to him may seem 

 proper ; nor with the making or vending of patent or proprietary medicines by 

 any retail dealer, nor with the selling by any person of copperas, borax, blue 

 vitriol, saltpeter, sulphur, brimstone, licorice, sage, juniper berries, senna 

 leaves, castor oil, sweet oil, spirits of turpentine, glycerine, glauber's salt, cream 

 of tartar, bi-carbonate of sodium, quinine, rochelle salts, epsom salts, alum, 

 camphor gum, oil of cinnamon, oil of lemon ; nor prohibit any person from sell- 

 ing paregoric, essence of peppermint, essence of cinnamon, essence of ginger, 

 hive syrup, syrup of ipecac, tincture of arnica, syrup of tolu, syrup of squills, 

 spirits of camphor, number six, sweet spirits of nitre, compound cathartic pills, 

 quinine pills, and other similar preparations when compounded by a legally 

 registered pharmacist and put up in bottles and boxes bearing the label of such 

 pharmacist or wholesale druggist, with the name of the article and directions 

 for its use on each bottle or box; nor prohibit any person from selling paris 

 green when put up in bottles or boxes, bearing the name of a legally registered 

 pharmacist or wholesale dealer, and labelled as required by section 4364-54 of 

 the Revised Statutes, nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealer. 

 (Laws, 1884, p. 61,) 



Bates' Annotated Statutes, 1897, p. 2350 ; as amended, Laws, 1900, p. 84. 



4410. Regulations as to who shall compound prescriptions. No person not a 

 qualified assistant, shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of any retail 

 drug or chemical store, to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians, 

 except as an aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or his quali- 

 fied assistant. 







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