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rats, carbolic acid, aconite, laudanum, paregoric and spirits of nitre may be 

 sold by general stores in sealed packages only : said package to be properly 

 labeled by a registered pharmacist of Wisconsin. The label shall have the 

 name of a registered pharmacist thereon, and the words " Registered Pharmacist 

 of Wisconsin, Certificate No. - " with the proper directions for the use 

 thereof. The sale of these articles put up by wholesale druggists or manufac- 

 turers, not registered pharmacists of Wisconsin, is nbt legal under this act. 



Statutes, 1898, vol. 1, p. 1057 (as amended, Laws 1899, p. 510). 

 SALE OF POISONS.a 



4601c. Labels; penalty. Any person who shall by himself, his servant or 

 agent or as the servant or agent of any other person, sell, exchange, deliver, 

 or have in his possession with intent to sell or exchange or expose or offer 

 for sale or exchange any medicine known as patent or proprietary, or of which 

 the formula is kept secret by the manufacturer, which contains morphine, 

 strychnine, cocaine or poisonous or narcotic alkaloid or drug, in any quanti- 

 ties which the state board of health shall deem harmful to the life or health 

 of the public, unless the presence of the same be distinctly shown by a label 

 upon the bottle or package and upon the outer wrapper thereof, shall be pun- 

 ished as provided in section 4G01a. [Note: Sec. 4G01a provides for a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment 

 in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than four months.] 

 (Laws 1897, p. 277.) 



Statutes, 1898, vol. 2, p. 2785. 



1419. Labeling; record; penalty. No person shall sell at retail or give away 

 any poison commonly recognized as such, except paris green put up in pack- 

 ages and labeled " paris green, poison ", and especially aconite, arsenic, and 

 its preparations, belladona, biniodide of mercury, carbolic acid, chloral hydrate, 

 chloroform, conium, corrosive sublimate, creosote, croton oil, cyanide of po- 

 tassium, digitalis, hydrocyanic acid, morphine, nux vomica, oil of savin, oil 

 of tansy, oil of bitter almonds, oil of cloves, ovalic & acid, opium and prepa- 

 rations of opium, phosphorus, sulphuric ether, strychnine, sugar of lead, 

 sulphate of zinc, white precipitate, red precipitate, or any mixture containing 

 enough of any of said poisons or of any combination of them sufficient to kill a 

 person taking the same without affixing to the box, bottle, vessel or package 

 containing the same and to the wrapper or cover thereof a label bearing the 

 word " poison " distinctly shown, together w r ith the name and place of busi- 

 ness of the seller. And every person who shall sell at retail any such poison 

 shall keep in his place of business a book in which shall be entered an accurate 

 record of the sale of all poisons; such record shall contain the amount pur- 

 chased, the date, for what purpose purchased and the buyer's name and 

 address, and shall be, during ordinary business hours, subject to the inspection 

 of the district attorney of the county in which such store is located or of any 

 authorized agent of the state board of pharmacy. Any person failing or neg- 

 lecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit for each such 

 violation not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Statutes, 1898, vol. 1, p. 1067. 



See also sec. 1409g, p. 203. & So in Statutes. 



