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one case exceed six consecutive days and that the total temporary absence of 

 such proprietor or manager shall not in the aggregate exceed the period of 

 thirty days in any year ; and it shall be unlawful for any registered assistant 

 pharmacist to engage in the occupation of compounding or dispensing medi- 

 cines on prescriptions of physicians or otherwise, or of selling at retail for 

 medicinal purposes any drugs, chemicals, poisons, or pharmaceutical prepara- 

 tions except when engaged or employed in a pharmacy or retail drug or chem- 

 ical store or pharmaceutical department which is in charge of and is under 

 the supervision and actual management of a registered pharmacist. No per- 

 son not registered as pharmacist or assistant pharmacist shall be allowed by 

 the proprietor or manager of any retail drug or chemical store or pharma- 

 ceutical department to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians; 

 except as in aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or registered 

 assistant pharmacist, who shall be present in the said pharmacy or pharma-- 

 ceutical department at the time. 



Code (Pollard), 1904, vol. 1, p. 924. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1764. Restrictions; schedules; exceptions; penalty. It shall not be lawful for 

 any person, having authority to sell or dispense medicines or poisons, to retail, 

 except upon prescription of a regularly licensed physician, dentist or veterinary 

 surgeon, morphine and its preparations, opium and its preparations, containing 

 a higher percentum of opium than laudanum prepared in accordance with 

 formula provided by the pharmacopoeia of the United States of America ; and 

 the druggist filling said prescription shall take and file and not refill the same, 

 nor shall such person or persons retail any poison enumerated in the following 

 schedules "A" and " B " without distinctly labeling the bottle, box, vessel, or 

 paper in which said poison is contained with the name of the article and the 

 word " Poison " and the name and place of business of the seller ; and, in 

 addition thereto, at least two of the most readily obtainable effective antidotes 

 to such poisonous article. 



SCHEDULE "A." 



Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, biniodide of mercury, 

 cyanide of potassium, hydron-cynic acid, strychnine and its salts, and essential 

 oil of bitter almonds. 



SCHEDULE " B." 



Aconite, belladonna, nux vomica, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, digi- 

 talis, colchicum, conium, henbane, and their pharmaceutical preparations ; creo- 

 sote, croton oil, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, white and red precipitate, and all 

 .other deadly poisons. 



Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons mentioned 

 in the said schedules "A" and " B," unless it be found, upon due inquiry, that 

 thtf purchaser is aware of its poisonous nature and represents that it is to be 

 used for a legitimate purpose, nor to any person under sixteen years of age, 

 except upon the written order of some responsible adult person. 



Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell any poison mentioned in 

 schedule "A" without, before delivering the same to the purchaser, causing 

 an entry to be made in a book, to be kept for that purpose, always open to the 

 inspection of the proper officers of the law, stating the date of sale, name and 



a So in Statutes ; hydrocyanic probably meant. 



