TEXAS. 185 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1. Restrictions of sale of narcotic drugs. It shall be unlawful for any person, 

 firm or corporation to sell, furnish or give away cocaine, salts of cocaine or 

 preparations containing cocaine or salts of cocaine or any morphine or salts of 

 morphine, or preparations containing morphine or salts of morphine, or any 

 opium or preparations containing opium, or any chloral hydrate or preparations 

 containing chloral hydrate, except upon the original written order or pre- 

 scription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine, dentistry or vet- 

 erinary medicine, which order or prescription shall he dated and shall con- 

 tain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or if ordered by a practi- 

 tioner of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered 

 and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order. Such 

 written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the per- 

 son, firm or corporation who shall compound or dispense the article ordered or 

 prescribed, and it shall not be recompounded or dispensed a second time, 

 except upon the written order of the original prescribe!- for each and every 

 subsequent compounding or dispensing. No copy or duplicate of such written 

 order or prescription shall be made or delivered to any person, but the original 

 shall at all times be open to inspection by properly authorized officers of the 

 law. Provided, however, that the above provisions shall not apply to prepara- 

 tions containing not more than two grains of opium, or not more than one- 

 eighth grain of morphine, nor not more than two grains of chloral hydrate, 

 or not more than one-sixteenth grain of cocaine, in one fluid ounce, or if a 

 solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce; provided also that the above pro- 

 visions shall not apply to preparations recommended in good faith for diarrhoea 

 or cholera, each bottle or package of which is accompanied by specific direc- 

 tions for use, and the caution .against habitual use, nor to liniments or oint- 

 ments when plainly labeled " For external use only". And provided further, 

 that the above provisions shall not apply to sales at wholesale [by] jobbers, 

 wholesalers and manufacturers to retail druggists, nor to sales at retail by 

 retail druggists to regular practitioners of medicine, dentistry or veterinary 

 medicine, nor to sales made to manufacturers of proprietary or pharmaceutical 

 preparations for use in the manufacture of such preparations, nor the sales to 

 hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions; nor to the sale of patent 

 or proprietary medicines sold by druggists or others, containing any of the fore- 

 going substances, the sale of which is prohibited by this Act; provided, such 

 preparations be not compounded or sold for the purpose of the evasion of 

 this Act. 



2. Prescriptions must not be given to habitual users. It shall be unlawful 

 for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to furnish 

 to or prescribe for the use of any habitual user of the same, any cocaine or 

 morphine, or any salts or compound of cocaine or morphine, or any prepara- 

 tion containing cocaine or morphine or their salts, or any opium or chloral 

 hydrate, or any preparation containing opium or chloral hydrate, and it shall 

 also be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to prescribe any of the fore- 

 going substances for the use of any person not under his treatment in the 

 regular practice of his profession, or for any practitioner of veterinary medi- 

 cine to prescribe any of the foregoing substances for the use of any human 

 being ; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be con- 

 strued to prevent any lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine from pre- 

 scribing in good faith for the use of any habitual user of narcotic drugs such 

 substances as he may deem necessary for the treatment of such habit. 



