196 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



address of purchaser, name and quantity of poison sold, purpose for which 

 it is required, as .represented by the purchaser, and name of the dispenser. 



The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons 

 in usual doses on prescriptions of physicians or veterinary surgeons put up by 

 registered pharmacists, or registered assistant pharmacists, or dispensed by a 

 physician or veterinary surgeon in his regular practice: provided, further, 

 that no cocaine shall be sold in this State by any person other than a regular 

 druggist or phamarcist. No druggist or pharmacist shall sell pr furnish cocaine 

 to any person other than a licensed physician, surgeon, dentist, druggist or 

 pharmacist. Any such druggist violating this act shall be fined not less than 

 twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. Be it enacted 

 further, that any person furnishing or causing to be furnished morphia or any 

 other drug to a person who is an habitue and under treatment or having been 

 under treatment for same shall be subject to the penalty imposed by this act. 

 (Acts 1904, P- 296.) 



Code (Pollard), 1904, vol. 1, p. 927. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



3812. Penalty. If any person fraudulently or knowingly adulterate, for the 

 purpose of sale, any drug or medicine, or any article of food or drink, with any 

 substance that may be injurious to health, or with barytes or any substance 

 intended to increase the weight or quantity of such food or drink, he shall be 

 confined in jail not exceeding one year, and fined not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars; and the adulterated articles shall be forfeited and destroyed. (Acts 

 1885-6, p. 496.) 



Code (Pollard), 1904, vol. 2, p. 2036. 



1765. Exceptions. None of the provisions of this chapter except those con- 

 tained in sections seventeen hundred and sixty-three and seventeen hundred 

 and sixty-four shall prevent the sale by merchants of quinine, epsom salts, 

 castor oil, essence of peppermint and other flavoring preparations, calomel, 

 camphor, iodide, bromide and chlorate of potassa, opium, paregoric, and sweet 

 oil, and such other domestic and proprietary medicines as are usually kept by 

 retail dealers ; but the sale of laudanum, morphine, and proprietary medicines 

 must be in original packages as obtained from druggists. 



1766. Penalties. * * * Any person violating any of the provisions of sec- 

 tion seventeen hundred and sixty-four, or who refuses to comply upon demand 

 with the requirements thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor 

 more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or 

 both ; and any person found guilty of violating the provisions of section seven- 

 teen hundred and sixty-four shall be adjudged to pay, in addition to the pen-" 

 alties hereinbefore provided for, all necessary cost and expense incurred in 

 inspecting and analyzing such adulterated articles which said persons may 

 have been found guilty of manufacturing, selling, or offering for sale; and"in 

 addition thereto, if he be a registered pharmacist or registered assistant phar- 

 macist, his name shall be stricken from the register. In all prosecutions under 

 this chapter the board of pharmacy of the state of Virginia shall be constituted 

 the informer, and one half the fines imposed by this settion shall go to the said 

 board of pharmacy and the other half to the commonwealth. 



Code (Pollard), 1904, vol. 1, p. 928-929. 



