566  PROPOSED  LAW  REGULATING  PHARMACY,  ETC. 
labelled  with  the  name  and  place  of  business  of  the  Pharmacist  so  dispensing 
them,  and  be  numbered  with  a  number  corresponding  to  that  on  the  original 
prescription  retained  by  the  Pharmacist  on  his  file  or  book,  as  aforesaid.  iSuch 
prescription  must  be  preserved  at  least  five  years,  and  shall  be  open  to  the  in- 
spection of  the  writers  thereof,  and  a  copy  must  be  furnished  by  the  pharma- 
cist, if  demanded  by  either  the  writer  or  purchaser,  or  both,  for  which  copy  or 
copies  the  pharmacist  shall  not  exact  any  fee. 
Sect.  15.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  the 
proprietor  of  any  pharmaceutical  shop  to  allow  any  person  not  a  graduate  or 
a  practising  assistant  in  pharmacy,  to  compound  or  dispense  the  prescriptions 
of  physicians  containing  poisons,  except  as  an  aid  under  the  immediate  super- 
vision of  said  proprietor,  or  a  graduate,  or  a  practising  assistant  in  pharmacy. 
Sect.  16.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  all  persons  who  shall 
knowingly,  intentionally  and  fraudulently  adulterate  or  cause  to  be  mixed  any 
foreign  or  inert  substance  with  any  drug  or  medical  substance,  or  any  com- 
pound medicinal  preparation  recognized  by  the  pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States  or  of  other  countries  as  employed  in  medical  practice,  with  the  effect 
of  weakening  or  destroying  its  medicinal  power,  or  who  shall  sell  the  same 
otherwise  than  in  the  unbroken  original  package  put  up  by  the  manufacturer 
and  labelled  with  his  name  and  address,  or  who  shall  sell  such  unbroken 
original  package  knowing  the  article  contained  thereinto  be  thus  adulterated, 
shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof  before  the  Crimi- 
nal Court  shall  forfeit  all  the  articles  so  adulterated  and  shall  pay  a  penalty 
not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  and  in  addition  thereto  may  be  sentenced 
to  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one  year  ;  said  fine  to  be  recovered  and  paid 
over  to 
Sect.  17.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Board  of  this  State  to 
appoint  for  such  counties  where  the  necessity  therefor  is  deemed  to  exist,  and 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions,  one  or  more  experts  ; 
and  whenever  a  distinct  charge  or  accusation  is  made,  under  oath  or  affirma- 
tion, before  an  Alderman  or  Justice  of  the  Peace,  that  there  is  reasonable 
ground  for  believing  that  any  dealer  or  manipulator  of  drugs,  wholesale  or 
retail,  is  guilty  of  any  of  the  charges  specified  in  Section  16  of  this  Act,  such 
accusation  to  be  substantiated  by  an  examination  or  analysis  of  the  alleged 
adulterated  drug  or  preparation  by  said  expert,  together  with  a  sample  or 
samples  of  the  articles  examined  or  analyzed,  the  said  Alderm.an  or  Justice  of 
the  Peace  may  issue  authority  to  search  for  and  arrest  the  sale  of  the  adul- 
terated articles  until  the  case  can  be  acted  on  by  the  grand  jury,  and,  if  a 
true  bill  be  found,  until  the  Court  decides  by  competent  testimony  for  or 
against  the  defendant. 
Sect.  18.  All  other  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  with  this  Act  are 
hereby  repealed. 
Sect.  19.  This  Act  shall  be  known  as  the  Pharmacy  and  Poison  Act,  18  , 
and  may  always  be  so  cited,  described  and  spoken  of. 
SCHEDULE  A. 
Aconite  and  its  preparations. 
Arsenic  and  its  preparations. 
Belladonna  and  its  preparations. 
Cantharides  and  the  tincture. 
Chloroform. 
Cotton  Root  and  its  preparations. 
Corrosive  Sublimate. 
Croton  Oil. 
Cyanide  of  Potassium. 
Digitalis  and  its  preparations. 
Ergot  and  its  preparations. 
Henbane  and  its  preparations. 
Hydrocyanic  Acid. 
Nux  Vomica  and  its  preparations. 
Opium  and  its  preparations,  paregoric 
excepted. 
Oxalic  Acid. 
Poison  Hemlock  or  Conium. 
Savine. 
Strychnia  and  all  poisonous  vegetable 
alkaloids  and  their  salts. 
Tartar  Emetic. 
Volatile  Oil  of  Bitter  Almonds,  of 
Pennyroyal,  of  Savine,  and  of  Tansy. 
Proprietary  or  secret  medicines  recom- 
mended, sold  or  advertised  as  Em- 
menagogues  and  Parturients. 
