TENNESSEE. 



The several grand juries are specifically charged with the investi- 

 gation of violations of the law prohibiting the adulteration of drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



3635. E.rc1uxin' r'njlit defined; cj-ccptions. It shall be unlawful for any per- 

 son not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this chapter, to open or 

 conduct any pharmacy or retail drug or chemical store as proprietor thereof, 

 unless he shall have in his employ and place in charge of such pharmacy or 

 retail drug or chemical store, a registered pharmacist within the meaning of 

 this chapter, who shall have the supervision and management of that part of 

 the business requiring pharmaceutical skill and knowledge; or to engage in 

 the occupation of compounding or dispensing medicines, or prescriptions of 

 physicians, or of selling at retail for medical purposes, any drugs, chemicals, 

 poisons, or pharmaceutical preparation, within this state, until he has com- 

 plied with the provisions of this chapter ; but nothing in this section shall 

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

 prevent his supplying to his patients such articles as may seem to him proper; 

 or with the making of patent or proprietary medicines; or with the selling, by 

 any store, of copperas, camphor, borax, blue vitriol, saltpeter, sulphur, brim- 

 stone, licorice, sage, quinine, juniper berries, senna leaves, castor oil, spirits 

 of turpentine, sweet oil, glycerine, Glauber's salts, Epsom salts, cream of tartar, 

 bicarbonate of sodium, and of such domestic remedies as paregoric, essence of 

 peppermint, essence of cinnamon, essence of ginger, hive sirup, sirup of ipecac, 

 tincture of arnica, sirup of tolu, sirup of squills, spirits of camphor, number six, 

 sweet spirits of nitre, compound cathartic pills, and other similar preparations, 

 when compounded by a regular pharmacist or wholesale druggist, and put up 

 in bottles and boxes bearing the label of such pharmacist or wholesale druggist, 

 with the name of the article and direction for its use on each bottle or box, or 

 with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealer. 



3649. Regulations as to who may compound physicians' prescriptions. No per- 

 son not a qualified assistant shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of a 

 retail drug or chemical store to compound or dispense the prescriptions of a 

 physician except as an aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or 

 his qualified assistant. 



3651. Penalty. Any person owning a pharmacy, retail drug or chemical store, 

 who, in violation of the provisions of section 3635, causes or permits the same 

 to be conducted by a person not a registered pharmacist, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any 

 sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and each 

 week that he shall cause or permit such pharmacy, retail drug or chemical 

 store, to be so conducted or managed, shall constitute a separate and distinct 

 offense, and render him subject to a separate prosecution and punishment 

 therefor. A person violating the provisions of section 3G40-3G42, 3645 and 

 3646, relating to registration, or failing to conspicuously expose such certificate 



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