562  PROPOSED  LAW  REGULATING  PHARMACY,  ETC. 
gen  ;  W.  Dankworth,  iMagdeburg  ;  Joseph  Dittrich,  Prague  ;  Prof.  A.W. 
Hoffmann,  Berlin  ;  Adolph  Duflos,  Breslau ;  K.  Yon  Schroff,  Vienna. 
Russia. — Iran  Pfeffer,  St.  Petersbug;  C.  Frederking,  Riga. 
Netherlmds.—Dv.J.  E.  DeYry,  Rotterdam;  Prof.  J.  S.  Stas,  Brussels, 
Belgmm;  Dr.  X.  Landerer,  Athens,  Greece;  Prof.  De  Luca,  Naples,  Italy; 
Dr.  F.  A.  Fluckiger,  Bern,  Switzerland;  Carlos  Ferrari,  Madrid,  Spain. 
[From  the  Minutes  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  see  page  496.] 
DRAFT  OF  A  PROPOSED  LAW 
To  regulate  the  Practice  of  Pharmacy  and  the  Sale  of  Poisons,  and  to  prevent  the 
Adulteration  of  Drugs  and  Medicines. 
PREAMBLE. 
Whereas^  the  safety  and  welfare  of  the  public  is  endangered  by  the  sale  of 
poisons  by  unqualified  or  ignorant  persons  ;  and  ivhereas  in  all  civilized  coun- 
tries it  is  found  necessary  to  restrict  this  species  of  traffic  and  to  provide  by 
law  for  the  regulation  of  the  delicate  and  responsible  business  of  compounding 
avid  dispensing  the  powerl'ul  agents  used  in  medicine  ;  and  ivhereas  the  adul- 
teration and  sophistication  of  drugs  and  medicines  is  a  species  of  fraud  which 
should  be  prevented  and  suitably  punished  ;  therefore  be  it  enacted,  &c. 
Section  1.  From  and  after  the  day  of  it  shall  be  unlawful 
for  any  person  to  keep  open  shop  for  retailing,  dispensing  or  compounding 
medicines  and  poisons,  unless  such  person  shall  be  a  registered  pharmacist  yvhhin 
the  meaning  of  this  act,  and  shall  also  conform  to  the  regulations  as  to  the 
keeping,  dispensing,  selling  and  compounding  poisons  hereinafter  provided  ; 
and  every  shop  kept  open  for  the  retailing,  dispensing  and  compounding  of 
medicines  and  poisons  shall  be  under  the  direct  personal  care,  oversight  and 
management  of  a  registered  pharmacist  or  registered  assistant  in  pharmacy, 
and  every  registered  pharmacist  owning  more  than  one  such  shop  shall  employ 
at  every  such  shop,  except  the  one  he  himself  manages,  a  registered  assistant 
in  pharmacy,  to  manage  and  supervise  that  particular  shop  only. 
Seel.  2.  No  person  shall  be  allowed  to  assume,  use  or  exhibit  the  title  of 
Registered  Pharmacist  or  Registered  Assistant  in  Pharmacy  unless  he  shall  have 
actually  been  registered  as  such  in  accordance  with  this  Act. 
Sect.  3.  No  person  shall  be  entitled  to  become  a  registered  pharmacist  unless 
he  be  either  a  graduate  in  pharmacy,  a  practising  pharmacist,  or  a  practising 
assistant  in  pharmacy. 
Sect.  4.  Graduates  in  Pharmacy  shall  be  understood  to  be  such  persons  only 
as  have  obtained  the  diploma  of  a  regularly  incorporated  or  chartered  College 
of  Pharmacy  within  the  United  States  ;  and  also  persons  possessing  a  diploma 
or  degree  from  some  pharmaceutical  institution  situated  in  a  foreign  country, 
said  diploma  being  acknowledged  and  endorsed  by  the  Pharmaceutical  board 
of  this  State  as  sufficient  to  entitle  such  person  to  be  considered  a  Graduate 
in  Pharmacy. 
Practising  Pharmacists  shall  be  understood  to  be  such  persons  only  as  at  or 
prior  to  the  passage  of  this  Act  have  kept  and  continue  to  keep  open  shop 
within  this  State  for  dispensing  and  compounding  the  prescriptions  of  medical 
practitioners,  and  for  the  sale  of  drugs  and  medicines. 
Practising  Assistants  in  Pharmacy  slvM  be  understood  to  be  such  persons  only 
as  shall  have  attained  the  age  of  twenty-oue  years,  and  who  shall  have  served 
four  years'  apprenticeship  in  a  shop  where  the  prescriptions  of  medical  prac- 
titioners were  dispensed  or  compounded,  and  who  shall  have  passed  an  ex- 
amination by  the  Pharmaceutical  board  of  this  State  as  hereinafter  provided. 
