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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1897. 
registered  by  said  board.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  or  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  before  an}T  court  shall  be  puu- 
ished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  ;  Provided,  however,  that  nothing  in  this  act 
contained  shall  in  any  manner  whatever  be  taken  or  construed  to  prohibit  any  practitioner  of 
medicine  from  supplying  to  his  patients  such  articles  as  he  may  deem  proper,  nor  to  interfere 
with  the  making  and  dealing  in  proprietary  medicines,  nor  to  prevent  storekeepers  from 
dealing  in  and  selling  the  commonly  used  medicines  and  poisons  as  now  permitted  by  the 
sixth  section  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  a  supplement.  And  provided/also,  that  the  legal  rep- 
resentatives of  any  deceased  registered  pharmacist  may,  for  the  purpose  of  administration  of 
his  estate,  be  permitted  by  the  Orphans'  Court  of  the  proper  county  to  continue  the  business 
for  not  exceeding  one  year  under  the  management  of  a  duly  registered  pharmacist. 
Section  2. — The  term  commonly  used  medicines  and  poisons  relating  to  storekeepers  is 
defined  as  simple  and  harmless  household  remedies  which  can  be  handled  with  safetj-  by  the 
uneducated,  as  essence  of  ginger,  peppermint,  Hoffman's  anoydyne,  castor  oil,  sweet  oil  and 
drugs  of  like  character,  and  to  exclude  all  dangerous  and  highly  concentrated  remedies, 
alkaloids,  fluid  and  solid  extracts,  and  drugs,  such  as  opium,  morphine,  cocaine,  chloral 
hydrate  and  drugs  of  like  character,  and  poisons  in  the  same  case  to  mean  only  such  well 
known  drugs  and  chemicals  as  are  used  by  farmers  and  truckers  as  insecticides,  as  Paris 
green,  royal  purple,  powdered  hellebore,  sulphate  of  copper  and  drugs  of  like  character. 
A  bill  already  referred  to  in  this  report  and  known  as  the  "Adulteration 
Bill,"  was  signed  hy  Governor  Hastings  on  May  25th  last.    It  is  : 
An  act  to  prevent  the  adulteration,  alteration  and  substitution  of  drugs  and  medicinal 
preparations;  and  providing  penalties  for  violation  thereof. 
Section  i.— Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Pennsylvania  in  General  Assembly  met,  and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  authority 
of  the  same,  That  no  person  shall  within  this  State  manufacture  for  sale,  offer  for  sale  or  sell 
any  drug  which  is  adulterated  within  the  meaning  of  this  act.  The  term  drug  used  herein 
shall  include  any  medicinal  substance  or  any  preparation  authorized  or  known  in  the  Phar- 
macopoeia of  the  United  States  or  the  National  Formulary  or  the  American  Homcepatliic  Phar- 
macopoeia or  the  American  Homcepatliic  Dispensatory.  A  drug  shall  be  deemed  to  be  adulter- 
ated within  the  meaning  of  this  act, 
(il  If  any  substance  or  substances  have  been  mixed  with  it  so  as  to  depreciate  and  weaken 
its  strength,  purity  or  quality. 
(2)  If  any  qualitj-,  substance  or  ingredient  be  abstracted  so  as  to  deteriorate  or  affect  injuri- 
ously the  quality  or  potency  of  the  drug. 
(3)  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  or  substances  have  been  substituted  in  whole  or 
part  for  it. 
(4)  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  is  sold  under  the  name  of  another  drug. 
(5)  If  the  drug  shall  be  so  altered  that  the  nature,  quality,  substance,  commercial  value  or 
medicinal  value  of  it  will  not  correspond  to  the  recognized  formulae  or  tests  of  the  latest  edi- 
tion of  the  National  Formulary  or  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  or  the  American 
Homcepatliic  Pharmacopoeia  or  the  American  Homcepatliic  Dispensatory  regarding  quality  or 
purity. 
On  complaint  being  entered  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  is  hereby  empow- 
ered to  employ  an  analyst  or  chemical  expert,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  examine  into  the 
so-called  adulteration  and  report  upon  the  result  of  his  investigation,  and  if  said  report  justifies 
such  action,  the  board  shall  duly  cause  the  prosecution  of  the  offender  as  provided  in  this  law. 
Whoever  violates  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  shall  be  fined  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  nor  less  than  fifty  dollars, 
or  undergo  an  imprisonment  not  exceeding  ninety  days  nor  less  than  thirty  days,  or  both. 
Section  2. — All  laws  or  parts  of  inconsistent  laws  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 
A  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  to  the  Committee  on  Legislation  and  to  the 
members  of  the  Legislature  who  had  worked  for  and  supported  the  measures. 
The  officers  for  the  coming  year  were  installed  at  the  last  session,  on  Thurs- 
day evening.  The  entertainment  provided  for  the  meeting  by  the  committee 
in  charge  was  of  an  interesting  character,  well  attended  and  much  enjoyed  by 
all  present. 
