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his patients with such articles as he may deem proper; but no licensed practitioner 

 of medicine shall be entitled to carry on or conduct the practice or business of phar- 

 macy in this State without obtaining registration as a pharmacist; nor to those who 

 sell medicines or poisons by wholesale only ; nor to the manufacture or sale of pro- 

 prietary medicines. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the 

 employment in any pharmacy of apprentices or assistants for the purpose of being 

 instructed in the practice of pharmacy; but such apprentices or assistants shall not 

 be permitted to prepare or dispense physicians' prescriptions, or to sell or furnish 

 medicines or poisons, except in the presence of and under the personal supervision 

 of a pharmacist registered and licensed under this act; nor to prevent any one not a 

 registered pharmacist under this act from owning a pharmacy, provided the duties 

 and business of pharmacy are in charge of and under the control of a registered 

 pharmacist under this act. 



SEC. 13. Nothing in this act will be so construed so as to prohibit any person 

 from selling the following articles, to wit: Cream of tartar, spirits of camphor, 

 soda, tincture of iron, sal soda, castor oil, salts, calomel, Paris green, sweet oil, blue 

 stone, ipecac, acids, spirits of turpentine, peruvian bark, and all its salts and prepa- 

 rations; aqua ammonia, essence of peppermint, spirits of nitre, es.sence of cinna- 

 mon, carbonate iron, copperas, tincture of iron, borax, glycerine, sulphur, paregoric, 

 essence of ginger, syrup of ipecac, and syrup squills. 



SEC. 14. Persons who at the time of the passage of this act hold certificates of 

 registration ;is pharmacists or assistant pharmacists shall not be required to register 

 under this act, but shall file their certificates of registration with the county elerk 

 for record and take out renewals thereof, as provided in section 2 of this act, and 

 in all other respects shall be amenable to the provisions of this act. 



SKC. 15. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to apply to towns or cities of 

 less than one thousand inhabitants. 



SEC. 16. An act entitled "An act to regulate the sale of medicines and poisons," 

 approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and an act 

 amendatory thereto, approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; 

 and all acts or parts of acts, whether general or special or private, in conllict with 

 this act are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 17. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved March 13, 1888. 



By the governor, 



S. B. BUCKNER. 

 GEO. M. ADAMS, 

 Secretary of State. 



BEN. JOHNSON, 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 Ji W. BRYAN, 



Speaker of the Senate. 

 LOUISIANA. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy; to regulate the sale of compounded medicines and 

 -drugs, preparations and prescriptions; to regulate the sale of poisons; to create a State board of 

 pharmacy, and to regulate the fees and emoluments thereof; to prevent the practice of pharmacy by 

 unauthorized persons; and to provide for the trial and punishment of violators of the provisions of 

 this act by fine or imprisonment. 



SECTION 1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of theStateof Louisiana, That it shall 

 hereafter be unlawful for any other than a registered pharmacist to compound medi- 

 cines, drugs or chemicals, or to institute or conduct auy apothecary or drug store, or 

 pharmacy shop for compounding drugs, medicines, or chernieals, or for any person to 

 be employed therein, or placed in charge thereof, for the purpose of compounding 

 drugs or chemicals under prescriptions or otherwise. 



SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., Any person twenty-one years of age shall be 

 entitled to registration as a duly registered pharmacist on exhibiting to the board 



