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SALE OF POISONS UNDER THE PHARMACY ACT OF 1868. 
measure affecting the sale and dispensing of poisons are simple and obvious 
enough. 
No person is allowed “ to sell or keep open shop for retailing, dispensing, or 
compounding poisons,” unless he be registered under the Act, or be a legally 
qualified Apothecary or a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
of Great Britain, or unless the sale be made by a wholesale dealer in the ordi¬ 
nary course of wholesale dealing, or the poison be contained in a patent medi¬ 
cine. 
The registered Chemist or Pharmacist is authorized to sell and dispense 
poisons, subject to certain regulations, and so also, within the limits of their 
respective businesses, are the Apothecary and Veterinary Surgeon. 
There is a distinct provision that the Apothecary in supplying medicines to 
his patients is not required to make any registry of sale, or to use any poison 
labels, but there is no such provision made for the Veterinary Surgeon. Both 
the Apothecary and the Veterinary Surgeon, in selling any poison in the ordi¬ 
nary w’ay of business, if this be within the sphere of their business, must con¬ 
form to all the regulations of the 17th clause, in the same way as a registered 
Chemist and Druggist. 
Wholesale dealers in exporting goods from Great Britain, and also in selling 
them by wholesale to retail dealers in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing, 
are not required to observe any of the regulations of the 17th clause, excepting 
those relating to the labelling of poisons with their proper names, and with the 
word u poison.” 
Registered Chemists or Pharmacists, and all others who are authorized to sell 
poisons by retail, are required to observe the following regulations :— 
If the poison be included in the second part of schedule A, it must be dis¬ 
tinctly labelled with the name of the article and the word poison, and with the 
name and address of the seller of the poison. This is all that is required to be 
done in reference to the sale of 
Oxalic Acid, 
Chloroform, 
Belladonna and its preparations, 
Essential oil of almonds, unless deprived of its prussic acid. 
Opium and all preparations of opium or of poppies. 
If the poison be included in the first part of schedule A, in addition to the 
foregoing requirements as to labelling, it is required, if the purchaser be un¬ 
known to the seller, that he should be introduced by some person known to the 
seller, and that before the delivery of the poison to the purchaser, entry be 
made in a book to be kept for that purpose, of the following particulars :—• 
The date of the sale. 
The name and address of the purchaser. 
The name and quantity of the article sold. 
The purpose for which it was stated by the purchaser to be required. 
And to these entries the signature of the purchaser, and of the person, if any, 
who introduced him, are to be affixed. 
These regulations are to be observed in selling any of the following 
articles :— 
Arsenic and its preparations. 
Prussic acid. 
Cyanides of potassium and all metallic cyanides. 
Strychnine and all poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts. 
Aconite and its preparations. 
