PENNSYLVANIA. 



The State pharmaceutical examining board may have analyses 

 made of drugs alleged to be adulterated and may institute prosecu- 

 tions in case sufficient evidence is found. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Registered pharmacist only to compound and vend flrmjx; penult 11. Here- 

 after no person whomsoever, shall open or carry on, as manager In the state 

 of Pennsylvania any retail drug or chemical store, nor engage in the business 

 of compounding or dispensing medicines or prescriptions of physicians, or 

 of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals, poisons or medicines without having 

 obtained a certificate of competency and qualification so to do from the state 

 pharmaceutical examining board, and having been duly registered as herein 

 provided ; but it shall be lawful for the widow or legal representatives of 

 n deceased person, who was a manager and registered pharmacist, to carry 

 on or continue the business of such deceased pharmacist: J'roridcd. That the 

 actual retailing, dispensing or compounding of medicines or poisons to be done 

 only by an assistant, qualified and registered as herein provided. Any person 

 who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this section, shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before any court shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. (Lairs 1891, p. 313.) 



12. Restrictions of pharmacy act not to <//>;>/// 1o itlnixichiiix in their regular 

 practice. No person shall hereafter engage as manager in the business of an 

 apothecary, or pharmacist, or of retailing drugs, chemicals and poisons, or of 

 compounding and dispensing the prescriptions of physicians, either directly or 

 indirectly, without having obtained such certificate as aforesaid. But nothing 

 contained in this act shall in any manner interfere with the business, of any 

 practitioner of medicine, nor prevent him from administering or supplying 

 to his patients such articles as to him may seem fit and proper, nor shall it 

 interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary remedies, popularly 

 called patent medicines, nor prevent storekeepers from dealing in and selling 

 the commonly used medicines and poisons, if such medicines and poisons 

 conform in all respects to the requirements of section nine [Note: Sec. 17 as 

 quoted beloiv from Digest] : Provided, The provisions of section ten (Sees. 19 

 to 22 incl., as given below) of this act be fully complied with. 



13. Penalty. . Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with the pro- 

 visions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 

 before any court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, 

 or be imprisoned in the county jail of the proper county for a term not exceed- 

 ing one year or either, or both, at the discretion of the court. 



16. Prescriptions must be compounded only 7>// or under the supervision of a 

 registered pJiarmacixt. No person shall be allowed, by the proprietor or man- 

 ager of any store or place where prescriptions are compounded, to compound 

 or dispense the prescriptions of physicians except under the immediate super- 

 vision of said proprietor or his qualified assistant, unless holding a properly 

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