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2902. Regulations governing retailing of poisons. It shall be unlawful for 

 any person, from and after the passage of this act, to retail any of the following 

 poisons, except as follows : Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, 

 white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, 

 hydrocyanic acid, strychnine and all other poisonous, vegetable alkaloids, and 

 their salts, essential oil or bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except 

 paregoric and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to 

 the ounce, aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, 

 ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical 

 preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral 

 acids, carbolic acid and oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel 

 or paper in which the said poison is contained, with the name of the article, the 

 word " poison," and the name and place of business of the seller. Nor shall it 

 be lawful for any registered pharmacist, or other person, to sell any of the 

 poisons above enumerated, without, before delivering the same to the purchaser, 

 causing an entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date 

 of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name of the poison sold, 

 the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the 

 name of the dispenser ; such a book to be always open for inspection by the 

 proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least five years. The provisions 

 of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual 

 quantities or doses, upon the prescription of practitioners of medicine. Any 

 violations of the provisions of this section shall make the offender liable to a 

 fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, 

 and upon conviction for the second offense, in addition to the fine, he shall have 

 his name stricken from the register. (Session Laws 1897, p. 230.) 

 Revised Statutes, 1903, vol. 1, p. 704. 



2886. Labeling; penalty. No druggist, apothecary or other person, except 

 practicing physicians in their ordinary practice, shall sell or give away, except 

 upon the order or prescription of a practicing physician, any article or articles, 

 belonging to the class usually known as poisons, without first registering in a 

 book kept therefor the name, age, and sex of the person receiving such poison, 

 the quantity sold, the purpose for which it is required, the day and date when 

 delivered, and the name and place of abode of the person for whom it is in- 

 tended, and carefully marking the word " POISON " upon the label or wrapper 

 of each phial, box or package, and no such person shall sell or give away any such 

 article of poison to any minor except upon the order or prescription of a phy- 

 sician. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section, shall for- 

 feit for each such violation, not less than twenty nor more than one hundred 

 dollars. 



Revised Statutes, 1903, vol. 1, p. 699. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



2355. Adulteration a misdemeanor. Every person who adulterates or dilutes 

 any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, strong, spirituous or malt liquor or 

 wine, or any article useful in compounding either of them, whether one -useful 

 for mankind or for animals, with a fraudulent intent to offer the same, or cause 

 or permit it to be offered for sale as unadulterated or undiluted, and every person 

 who fraudulently sells or keeps or offers for sale the same as unadulterated 

 of undiluted, knowing it to have been adulterated or diluted, is guilty of a 

 misdemeanor. 



a So in Statutes. 



