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making and dealing in proprietary medicines, popularly called patent medicines, 

 unless such medicines be wholly or in part composed of some of the articles enu- 

 merated in schedule A of this chapter, nor with the business of wholesale dealers in 

 supplying medicines and poisons to registered pharmacists and physicians, and for 

 use in the arts; nor shall it apply to such wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines 

 in the trade on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and 

 seventy-four, as the State board of pharmacy shall in their discretion deem suitable 

 persons, and who shall keep and maintain in their employ one or more registered 

 assistant pharmacists, who shall have the sole charge and care of the compounding 

 and dispensing of all medicines and poisons sold at retail. 



SEC. 9. No person shall hereafter sell, either by wholesale or retail, any of the 

 poisons enumerated in schedule A of this chapter, without distinctly labeling the 

 bottle, box, vessel, or paper and wrapper or cover in which said poison is contained, 

 with the name of the article, the word poison, and the name and place of business 

 of the seller; and every registered pharmacist selling or dispensing any of said 

 poisons shall first enter in a book, to be kept for that purpose only, and subject 

 always to inspection by the State board of pharmacy or any officer or agent thereof 

 or other proper authority, and to be preserved for at least five years, a record of the 

 same in accordance with schedule B of this chapter: Provided, That if any of said 

 poisons form a part of the ingredients of any medicine or medicines compounded in 

 accordance with the written prescription of a medical practitioner, the same need 

 not be labeled with the word poison : but all prescriptions, whether or not composed 

 in part or in whole of any of said ingredients, shall be carefully kept by the phar- 

 macist on a file or in a book used for that purpose only and numbered in the order 

 in which they are received <r dispensed, and every lux, bottle, vial, vessel, or 

 packet containing medicines so dispensed shall be labeled with the name and place 

 of business of the registered pharmacist so dispensing said medicine, and be num- 

 bered with a number corresponding with that on the original prescription retained 

 by said pharmacist on such book or file. Such prescriptions shall be preserved at 

 least five years, and shall be open to the inspection of the writer thereof, and a copy 

 shall be furnished free of expense whenever demanded by either the writer or the 

 purchaser thereof. 



SKC. 10. Kvery person who shall knowingly adulterate or cause to be mixed any 

 foreign or inert substance with any drug <>r medicinal substance, or any compound 

 medicinal preparation recogni/ed by the pharmaeopo-ia of the I'nited States or of 

 other countries, as employed in medicinal practice, \\ ith the effect of weakening or 

 destroying its medicinal power, or who shall sell the same knowing it to he adul- 

 terated, shall, in addition to the penalties prescribed in section seven hereof, forfeit 

 to the use of the State all articles so adulterated found in his possession and shall 

 be deprived of the right of practicing as a pharmacist in this State thereafter. 

 Whenever complaint shall be made of any violation of the provisions of this section, 

 the State board of pharmacy, on being notified thereof, shall make investigation of 

 the same, employing competent persons when necessary to make analysis of the 

 articles alleged to be adulterated; and if such complaint shall be substantiated said 

 board shall assist in making prosecution against the respondent. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic and its preparations. 

 Cotton root and its preparations. 

 Corrosive sublimate. 

 Cyanide of potassium. 

 Ergot and its preparations. 

 Hydrocyanic acid. 



Opium and its preparations, paregoric 

 excepted. 



Oxalic acid. 



Savin. 



Strychnia. 



Volatile oil of bitter almonds, of penny- 

 royal, of savin, and of tansy. 



Proprietary or secret medicines recom- 

 mended, sold, or advertised as emuien- 

 agogues and parturients. 



