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same, or puts any untrue label, stamp, or other designation of contents upon any 

 box, bottle, or other package containing a drug or medicine, or substitutes a different 

 article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of 

 any article than that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of 

 the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which 

 human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 327. Apothecary selling poison tvithout recording the sale. An apothecary or 

 druggist, or a person employed as clerk or salesman by an apothecary or druggist, 

 or any person otherwise carrying on business, who shall sell, or give away, arsenic 

 or its preparations, aconite, belladonna, lead or its preparations, mercury or its 

 preparations, hydrocyanic acid, oxalic acid, copper or its preparations, phosphorus, 

 oil of savin, oil of tansy, morphine, strychnine, laudanum, rough on rats, or cyanide 

 of potassium, without first recording, in a book to be kept for that purpose, the 

 name and residence of the person receiving such poison, together with the kind and 

 quantity of such poison received, except upon the written order or prescription of 

 some practicing physician, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person purchasing any 

 of the above-named drugs who shall give the person selling the same a false name 

 for registration, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor: 

 Provided, That this section shall not apply to the sale of Paris green. 



SEC. 328. Refusing to exhibit record. A person whose duty it is by the last section 

 to keep a book for recording the sale or gift of poisons who willfully refuses to per- 

 mit any officer, or person acting under the direction of an officer, to inspect said book 

 upon reasonable demand during ordinary business hours shall, upon conviction 

 thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not to exceed 

 fifty dollars. 



SEC. 329. Selling poison without label. An apothecary or druggist, or a person 

 employed as clerk or salesman by an apothecary or druggist, or any person other- 

 wise carrying on business, who shall sell, or give away, arsenic or its preparations, 

 aconite, belladonna, lead or its preparations, mercury or its preparations, hydro- 

 cyanic acid, oxalic acid, copper or its preparations, morphine, phosphorus, oil of 

 savin, oil of tansy, oil of cedar, strychnine, rough on rats, cyanide of potassium, 

 carbolic acid, tincture of nux vomica, fluid extract ergot, fluid extract cotton root, 

 chloroform, chloral hydrate, croton oil, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, stramonium, 

 coniuin, opium or its preparations, except paregoric and Dewees's carminative, with- 

 out attaching to the vial, box, or parcel containing such substance a label with the 

 name and residence of such person, the word ''poison," and the name of such article 

 written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, thereon, in plain and legi- 

 ble characters, is guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That the provisions of this 

 section shall not apply when the sale is made upon the written prescription or order 

 of some practicing physician. 



SEC. 330. Medical prescriptions. No person employed in a drug store or apothecary 

 shop shall prepare a medical prescription unless he has served two years' appren- 

 ticeship in such store or shop, or is graduate of a medical college or college of 

 pharmacy, except under the direct supervision of some person possessing one of 

 those qualifications; nor shall any proprietor or other person in charge of such a 

 store or shop permit any person not possessing such qualifications to prepare a med- 

 ical prescription in his store or shop, except under such supervision. A person 

 violating any provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a 

 fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 

 exceeding six months; and in case of death ensuing from such violation, the person 

 offending is guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine not less than one thousand dol- 

 lars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the State prison 

 not less than two years nor more than four years, or by both such fine and imprison- 

 ment. 



