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unprofessional conduct, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the State Board 

 of Medical Examiners to revoke and annul the license of such physician to 

 practice medicine in the State of Wyoming. 



Laws, 1903, p. 129. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



2223. Adulteration prohibited; penalty. No person shall add to or remove 

 from any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation any ingre- 

 dient or material for the purpose of adulteration or substitution, or which shall 

 deteriorate the quality, commercial or medicinal effect, or which shall alter 

 the nature or composition of such drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical 

 preparation so that it will not correspond to the recognized test of identity or 

 purity. Any person who shall thus wilfully adulterate or alter, or cause to be 

 adulterated or altered, or shall sell or offer for sale any such adulterated or 

 altered drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, or any person 

 who shall substitute or cause to be substituted one material for another with 

 the intention to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and be liable to prosecution under this act. If convicted he shall be 

 liable to all the costs of the action, and all expenses incurred by the commis- 

 sioners of pharmacy in connection therewith, and for the first offence be 

 liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, 

 and for each subsequent offense a fine of not less than seventy-five nor more 

 than one hundred and fifty dollars. On complaint being entered the commis- 

 sioners of pharmacy are hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemical 

 expert whose duty it shall be to examine into the so claimed adulteration, sub- 

 stitution or alteration, and report upon the result of his investigation ; and if 

 said report justify such action the commission shall duly cause the prosecution 

 of the offender as provided in this law. (Laics 1888, p. 36.) 



Revised Statutes, 1899, p. 629. 



5109. Penalty for fraudulent adulteration. Every person who adulterates or 

 dilutes any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or 

 wine, or any article used in compounding them, with a fraudulent intent to 

 offer the same for sale, or to cause or permit the same to be offered for sale, 

 as unadulterated and undiluted; and every person who fraudulently sells or 

 keeps or offers for sale the same as unadulterated or undiluted shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the 

 county jail not more than sixty days, or by both. 



5110. Penalty for selling spoiled medicine. Every person who knowingly 

 sells or keeps, or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of, or tries to dispose 

 of, any article of food, drink, drug or medicine, knowing that the same has 

 become tainted, decayed, spoiled or otherwise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten 

 or drunk shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the county 

 jail not more than thirty days, or both. Laws, 1884, P- 4- 



Revised Statutes, 1899, p. 1264-1265. 



6. Sale of adulterated drugs prohibited. No person or persons shall within 

 the State of Wyoming manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or 

 article of food, drink or illuminating oil which is adulterated within the mean- 

 ing of this act. 



7. Terms " drug," " food," and " drinks " defined. The term " drug " as used 

 in this act, shall include all medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, 



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