350  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {Amj^i9Piarm' 
manufacturer,  wholesale  or  retail  druggists ;  nor  to  sales  made  to  hospitals, 
colleges,  scientific  or  public  institutions,  or  to  physicians,  dentists  or  veterinary 
surgeons ;  nor  to  the  sale  of  cough  remedies  and  other  domestic  and  pro- 
prietary preparations ;  provided  that  such  preparations  are  sold  in  good  faith 
as  medicines,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  evading  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
if  such  preparations  do  not  contain  more  than  two  and  one-half  grains  of 
opium,  or  one-third  of  a  grain  of  morphine,  or  one- fourth  of  a  grain  of  heroin, 
or  one  grain  of  codeine  or  their  salts  in  one  fluidounce ;  or  if  a  solid  prepara- 
tion, in  one  avoirdupois  ounce,  excepting  liniments  and  ointments  which 
are  prepared  for  external  use  only;  nor  to  preparations  containing  opium  or 
any  of  its  salts,  which  are  sold  in  good  faith,  for  diarrhcea,  cholera  or 
neuralgia ;  nor  to  powder  of  ipecac  and  opium,  commonly  known  as  Dover's 
powders ;  nor  to  compound  medicinal  tablets,  pills  or  powders  containing 
not  over  one-twentieth  of  a  grain  of  morphine,  or  one-twelfth  of  a  grain 
of  heroin  or  one-fourth  of  a  grain  of  codeine,  or  any  of  their  salts  to  each 
pill,  powder  or  tablet;  provided,  that  such  preparations  are  sold  in  good  faith 
as  medicines  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  evading  the  provisions  of  the  act. 
Mr.  Walton  further  remarked  that  personally  he  was  in  favor 
of  reasonable  legislation,  that  he  believed  that  the  legitimate  uses  of 
opium  and  morphine  should  be  considered  and  that  in  enacting  an 
antinarcotic  law  no  necessary  impediments  should  be  placed  in  the 
way  of  such  use.  He  said  that  the  handling  of  habitues  presented 
a  difficult  problem,  as  to  prohibit  entirely  the  use  of  the  drugs  to 
which  they  were  addicted,  would  no  doubt  end  in  collapse  and  possi- 
bly death  in  some  instances.  Mr.  Walton  added  that  he  had  written 
a  prominent  New  York  firm  asking  for  the  record  of  their  sales  of 
cocaine,  and  that  the  firm's  reply  was  that  they  were  not  required 
by  law  to  keep  a  record  of  sales  of  this  drug  outside  the  State  of 
New  York. 
Professor  Kraemer  said  that  the  Pennsylvania  cocaine  law 
appeared  to  be  very  effective  and  that  it  ought  to  be  a  comparatively 
easy  matter  to  introduce  a  clause  providing  for  the  similar  regulation 
of  the  sale  of  morphine  and  its  derivatives.  He  pointed  out  that  in 
framing  legislation  of  this  kind  the  work  of  local,  state  and  national 
organizations  should  be  co-ordinated,  and  expressed  the  opinion  that 
an  interstate  law  bearing  on  the  sale  of  poisonous  drugs  will  prob- 
ably be  framed  ere  long,  as  this  is  a  matter  in  which  some  of  the 
Government  departments  have  much  interest. 
Regarding  the  dose  of  morphine  used  by  habitues,  Mr.  Lee  stated 
that  an  instance  had  come  to  his  notice  where  15  grains  were  used 
daily,  and  Mr.  Blair  stated  that  he  had  understood  that  the  taking 
of  1  drachm  daily  was  not  unusual. 
