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A POISON BILL FOR IRELAND. 
trict, and with respect to other parts of Ireland, before a justice or justices of 
the peace sitting in petty sessions, subject and according to the provisions of the 
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act amending the same, and shall 
be applied according to the provisions of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, or any 
Act amending the same. 
SCHEDULE A. 
Part I. 
Arsenic, and its preparations. 
Prussic acid, and its preparations. 
Cyanides of potassium and all metallic cyanides, and preparations of any of the said 
cyanides. 
Strychnine, and its preparations, all poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts. 
Aconite, and its preparations. 
Emetic tartar. 
Corrosive sublimate. 
Cantharides. 
Savin, and its oil. 
Ergot of rye, and its preparations. 
Preparations of atropine. 
Part II. 
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. 
Preparations of corrosive sublimate. 
Preparations of morphine. 
Bed oxide of mercury (commonly known as red precipitate of mercury). 
Ammoniated mercury (commonly known as white precipitate of mercury.) 
Every compound containing any of the poisons mentioned in this schedule, when pre¬ 
pared or sold for the destruction of vermin. 
The tincture and all vesicating liquid preparations of cantharides. 
SCHEDULE B. 
Date. 
Name of 
Purchaser. 
Name and 
Quantity 
of Poison sold. 
Purpose 
for which it 
is required. 
Signature 
of Purchaser. 
Signature of 
Person 
introducing 
Purchaser. 
It will be seen that this Bill touches nothing more than the sale of poisons, 
of which a schedule is given, corresponding with the existing schedule in this 
country. The regulations under which these poisons may be sold or dispensed 
are similar to those of our Pharmacy Act, 1868, excepting that the “ Gover¬ 
nor and Council of the Apothecaries’ Hall of Dublin” stand in the place of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, that no qualification is required on 
the part of those who merely sell poisons, and that duly qualified apothecaries 
only are now, as heretofore, allowed to dispense mediciues, subject to the same 
regulations as in our Act apply to pharmaceutical chemists. 
