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distinctly labeling the bottle, box, vessel or paper and wrapper or cover in 

 which said poison is contained, with the name of the article, the word " poison ", 

 and the name and place of business of the seller; and every registered phar- 

 macist selling or dispensing any of said poisons shall first enter in a book, to 

 be kept for that purpose only, and subject always to inspection by the state 

 board of pharmacy or any officer or agent thereof or other proper authority, 

 and to be preserved for at least five years, a record of the same in accordance 

 with Schedule B a of this chapter: Provided, that if any of said poisons form a 

 part of the ingredients of any medicine or medicines compounded in accordance 

 with the written prescription of a medical practitioner, the same need not be 

 labeled with the word " poison " ; but all prescriptions, whether or not com- 

 posed in part or in whole of any of said ingredients, shall be carefully kept by 

 the pharmacist on a file or in a book used for that purpose only and numbered 

 in the order in which they are received or dispensed, and every box, bottle, 

 vial, vessel or packet containing medicines so dispensed, shall be labeled with 

 the name and place of business of the registered pharmacist so dispensing said 

 medicine, and be numbered with a number corresponding with that on the 

 original prescription retained by said pharmacist on such book or file. Such 

 prescriptions shall be preserved at least five years and shall be open to the in- 

 spection of the writer thereof, and a copy shall be furnished free of expense 

 whenever demanded by either the writer or the purchaser thereof. 



General Laws, 189G, p. 403. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



10. Penalty. Every person who -shall knowingly adulterate, or cause to be 

 mixed any foreign or inert substance with any drug or medicinal substance, or 

 any compound medicinal preparation recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the 

 United States or of other countries, as employed in medicinal practice, with 

 the effect of weakening or destroying its medicinal power, or who shall sell 

 the same knowing it to be adulterated, shall, in addition to the penalties pre- 

 scribed in section seven hereof, forfeit to the use of the state all articles so 

 adulterated found in his possession and shall be deprived of the right of prac- 

 tising as a pharmacist in this state thereafter. Whenever complaint shall be 

 made of any violation of the provisions of this section, the state board of 

 pharmacy, on being notified thereof, shall make investigation of the same, em- 

 ploying competent persons when necessary to make analysis of the articles 

 alleged to be adulterated ; and if such complaint shall be substantiated said 

 board shall assist in making prosecution against the respondent. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic and its preparations. Oxalic Acid. 



Cotton Root and its preparations. Savin. 



Corrosive Sublimate. Strychnia. 



Cyanide of Potassium. Volatile Oil of Bitter Almonds, of 



Ergot and its preparations. Pennyroyal, of Savin and of Tansy. 



Hydrocyanic Acid. Proprietary or secret medicines rec- 



Opium and its preparations, paregoric ommended, sold or advertised as 



excepted. Emmenagogues and Parturients. 



General Laws 1896, p. 464. 



a Form in which record of poison sales must be kept. 



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