164 DEUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



compliance or violation of the provisions of this act, and prosecute all persons 

 so offending, whenever there shall appear to the board reasonable ground for 

 such action. Laws 1887, p. 193-194. 



Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. 110. 



1. Regulation of sale of cocaine. No person shall sell, furnish or give away 

 any cocaine, or any patent of proprietary remedy containing cocaine, except 

 upon the prescription of a registered practicing physician, or of a dentist, or 

 a veterinarian ; nor shall any such prescription be refilled ; nor shall any physi- 

 cian, dentist or veterinarian prescribe cocaine, or any patent or proprietary 

 remedy containing cocaine, for any person known to such physician, dentist 

 or veterinarian to be an habitual user of cocaine: Provided, That the pro- 

 visions of this act shall not apply to persons engaged in the wholesale drug 

 trade, regularly selling cocaine to persons engaged in the retail drug trade. 



2. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be 

 sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and undergo an 

 imprisonment of not more than six months, or both, or either, at the discretion 

 of the court. Laws 1903, p. 259. 



Brightly's Digest, 1903, p. 113. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



17. Prohibition. No person shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently falsify 

 or adulterate, or cause to be falsified or adulterated, any drug or medical sub- 

 stance, or any preparation authorized or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of 

 the United States, or used or intended to be used in medicinal practice, or 

 mix or cause to be mixed with any such drug or medicinal substance any 

 foreign or inert substance whatsoever, for the purpose of destroying or weak- 

 ening its medical power and effect, and wilfully, knowingly or fraudulently 

 sell or cause the same to be sold for medicinal purposes. 



18. Penalty. Any person who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to the commonwealth all 

 articles so adulterated. Laws 1887, p. 193. 



Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. 110. 



10. "Drug " and "adulteration" defined; analyst employed; penalty. No per- 

 son shall, within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale or sell, any 

 drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this act. The term drug used 

 herein shall include any medicinal substance or any preparation authorized or 

 known in the " Pharmacopoeia of the United States," or the " National Formu- 

 lary," or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, or the American Homeo- 

 pathic Dispensatory. 



A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act : 



1. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to depreciate 

 and weaken its strength, purity or quality. 



2. If any quality, substance or ingredient be abstracted so as to deteriorate 

 or affect injuriously the quality or potency of the said drug. 



3. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted in 

 whole or part for it. 



4. If it is an imitation or is sold under the name of another drug. 



5. If the drug shall be so altered that the nature, quality, substance, com- 

 mercial value or medicinal value of it will not correspond to the recognized 



