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PHARMACEUTICAL LEGISLATION IN AMERICA. 
The Pharmaceutical Chemists of Great Britain may congratulate them¬ 
selves at having set an example in securing a certain amount of restriction on 
the practice ot pharmacy in this country, an example which is now apparently 
exciting the emulation of our brethren on the other side the Atlantic, 
'throughout the United States efforts are being made to secure a law or laws 
which shall embody four general principles ; three out of which constitute 
the basis of our own Act of Parliament. The first two bear upon the quali¬ 
fication and registration of chemists and druggists, another has reference to 
the sale of poisons, and the fourth to the adulteration of drugs. 
The following extracts from the draft of a Bill framed by a Committee of 
the American Pharmaceutical Association, will show how closely the com¬ 
pilers have studied the British Pharmacy Act of 1868, and what a high de¬ 
gree of confidence they appear to repose in its practical working qualities. 
1. r lke proposed law recognizes all persons actually in business on their 
own account at the passing of the Act as entitled to be entered as registered 
pharmacists. 
2. All persons not then in business on their own account will have to sub¬ 
mit to an examination, or become graduates in pharmacy, before they can 
become registered pharmacists. 
3. All who are neither graduates nor (examined) practising assistants are, 
in the eye of the law, still apprentices. 
4. After an apprentice becomes a graduate or examined practising assistant, 
he may become a registered pharmacist by opening a store. 
5. Ike incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Societies 
shall submit the names of twenty pharmacists, or professors in Colleges of 
Pharmacy, out of whom the Governor shall appoint seven persons, who shall 
constitute the Examining Board. 
6. A Registrar is to be appointed. 
7. A Register is to be kept. In this book the names entered will be under 
four classes :— 
A. In business prior to the passing of the Act. 
B. Graduate in Pharmacy in a recognized college. 
C. Practising Assistant in Pharmacy, examined by the Pharmaceutical 
Board of the State. 
I). Registered Assistant in Pharmacy. 
8. None but registered pharmacists shall keep open shop for retailing and 
dispensing of medicines and poisons. However, in rural districts, where 
there is no registered pharmacist within three miles, retail dealers may pro¬ 
cure licenses as retailers of poisons (as enumerated in the Schedule), and all 
sales of poisons by persons so licensed are to be recorded in a book kept for 
that purpose. 
9. Poisons are to be properly labelled, and entries of sales made in a book; 
but this is not to apply to the ingredients in prescriptions of qualified medi¬ 
cal practitioners. 
10. Persons practising adulteration of any drug or medicine, guilty of a 
misdemeanour, and liable to a pecuniary penalty and imprisonment. 
