WISCONSIN. 



It is the duty of the State dairy commissioner to enforce the law 

 regarding adulterated drugs, but the working force of the dairy and 

 food commission has been so small. that no systematic effort has been 

 made to prosecute violators of the law. 



EEGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1409g\ Penalty for unlicensed sale of drugs; assistants; terms defined; labels. 

 Any person who shall retail, compound or dispense or permit to be retailed, 

 compounded or dispensed drugs, medicines or poisons, except paris green put 

 up in packages labeled " paris green, poison ", or institute or conduct any 

 pharmacy, store or shop for retailing, compounding or dispensing drugs, med- 

 icines or poisons in any town, city or village having five hundred or more in- 

 habitants, unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist or shall employ 

 and place in charge of such pharmacy, store or shop a registered pharmacist 

 shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offense. Any person who shall retail, com- 

 pound or dispense or permit to be retailed, compounded or dispensed drugs, 

 medicines or poisons, except paris green put up in packages labeled " paris 

 green, poison ", in his store or place of business in towns, cities or villages 

 having less than five hundred inhabitants, or institute or conduct any phar- 

 macy, store or shop for retailing, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines 

 or poisons in any town, city or village having less than five hundred inhabitants, 

 unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist or registered assistant 

 pharmacist or shall employ and place in charge of such pharmacy, store or shop 

 a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist, shall forfeit fifty dol- 

 lars for each offense ; provided, that under the personal supervision of a regis- 

 tered pharmacist a registered assistant may compound or dispense prescriptions 

 and vend drugs, medicines or poisons without incurring such forfeiture; and 

 that nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with any practicing 

 physician from dispensing his own medicines, or supplying his patients with 

 such articles as may seem to him proper, nor interfere with the general 

 sale of proprietary medicines, prepared and compounded within the state by 

 physicians and registered pharmacists, if the same shall be sold in sealed pack- 

 ages on which shall be printed or stamped the name of the contents and the 

 directions for using, together with the name of the physician or pharmacist 

 by whom prepared and compounded, nor interfere with the general sale of 

 proprietary medicines that have been prepared and compounded outside the 

 state and brought into the state, nor with the sale of the usual domestic reme- 

 dies, nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealer. The term 

 " usual domestic remedies ", referred to in said section, is hereby construed to 

 include alum, ammonia, borax, bay rum, castor oil, camphor spirits, camphor 

 gum, copperas, glycerine, epsom salts, glauber salts, rochelle salts, fennel seed, 

 indigo, magnesia, potash, senna leaves, sulphur, vaseline, insect powder, resin, 

 turpentine, and blue vitrol.a Poisonous drugs or medicines, such as rough on 



a So in Statutes. 



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