VERMONT. 



The State board of health has authority to make such rules as it 

 may deem necessary to facilitate the enforcement of the law regulat- 

 ing the sale of adulterated drugs. The only difficulty met with in the 

 work is the lack of a sufficient appropriation. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



4662. False representtitions <i* to rit/Jits to sell dni(/s and compound physicians' 

 prescriptions. It shall be unlawful for any person, not licensed as a phar- 

 macist within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter to practice phar- 

 macy, or to display any sign, emblem or other device, or to advertise or to indi- 

 cate in any manner that the said person or person's place of business is used 

 for the purpose of a pharmacy, drug or chemical store, apothecary shop, or 

 other place of business for the retailing, compounding or dispensing of any 

 drugs, chemicals or poisons, or for the compounding of physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, or to expose for sale at retail any drugs, chemicals or poisons, unless 

 such place of business shall be conducted, managed or controlled by a licensed 

 pharmacist, in accordance with the provisions of this act. 



4663. Term " practice of iiJiarntaei/ " construed. The term " practice of 

 pharmacy " as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the compound- 

 ing of physicians' prescriptions and the preparations of ingredients therefor; 

 but nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be applied to the business of 

 a practitioner of medicine, nor to prevent the practitioner of medicine from sup- 

 plying their" patients with such medicines as they deem proper; nor to those 

 who sell medicines or poisons at wholesale only ; nor to the manufacture or 

 sale of patent or proprietary medicines ; nor to the sale, nojt on prescription, of 

 drugs, medicines and poisons. Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed 

 as to prohibit the employment in any pharmacy of apprentices or assistants 

 for the purpose of being instructed in the practice of pharmacy, but such ap- 

 prentices or assistants shall not be permitted to prepare or dispense physicians' 

 prescriptions, nor to sell or furnish poisons, except in the presence of and 

 under the personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist The provisions of this 

 chapter shall not apply to the sale of insecticides nor any substances for use 

 in the arts.- 



Laws 1904, p. 180-181. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



5077. Record; fines. A person who sells arsenic, strychnia, corrosive subli- 

 mate, prussic acid, or chloroform, without the written prescription of a physi- 

 cian, shall keep a record of the date of such sale, the article, the amount 

 thereof sold, and the person to whom delivered ; and for each neglect shall be 



So in Statutes. 



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