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our  law  is  more  or  less  stringent  than  theirs,  and  make  such  infor- 
mation the  basis  of  any  judgment  on  the  subject  herewith  ex- 
pressed. 
Our  own  State  law,  in  Section  10,  prescribes  that  "  A  poison  in 
the  meaning  of  this  Act  shall  be  any  drug,  chemical  or  preparation 
which,  according  to  standard  works  on  medicine  or  materia  medica, 
is  liable  to  be  destructive  to  adult  human  life  in  quantities  of  sixty 
grains  or  less." 
"  No  person  shall  sell  at  retail  any  poisons,  except  as  herein  pro- 
vided, without  affixing  to  the  bottle,  box,  vessel  or  package  con- 
taining the  same,  a  label  printed  or  plainly  written,  containing  the 
name  of  the  article,  the  word  « poison '  and  the  name  and  place  of 
business  of  the  seller ;  nor  shall  he  deliver  poison  to  any  person 
without  satisfying  himself  that  such  poison  is  to  be  used  for  legit- 
imate purposes." 
"  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  any  one  selling  or  dispensing 
poisons  which  are  known  to  be  destructive  to  adult  human  life  in 
quantities  of  five  grains  or  less,  before  delivering  them,  to  enter  in  a 
book  kept  for  this  purpose  the  name  of  the  seller,  the  name  and 
residence  of  the  buyer,  the  name  of  the  article,  quantity  sold  or  dis- 
posed of  and  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  said  to  be  intended,  which 
book  of  registry  shall  be  preserved  for  at  least  two  years,  and  shall 
at  all  times  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  the  coroner  or  courts  of 
the  county  in  which  the  same  be  kept." 
There  is  also  a  law,  approved  the  12th  day  of  May,  1897,  control- 
ling the  sale  of  emmenagogue  preparations,  as  follows : 
"  Section  2.  A  person  who  sells,  lends,  gives  away  or  in  any  man- 
ner exhibits  or  offers  to  sell,  lend  or  give  away,  or  has  in  his  pos- 
session with  intent  to  sell,  lend  or  give  away,  or  advertises  or  offers 
for  sale,  loan  or  distribution,  any  instrument  or  article,  or  any  recipe, 
drug  or  medicine  for  the  prevention  of  conception,  or  for  causing 
unlawful  abortion,  or  advertises  or  holds  out  representations  that  it 
can  be  so  used  or  applied,  or  any  such  description  as  will  be  calcu- 
lated to  lead  another  to  so  use  or  apply  any  such  article,  recipe, 
drug,  medicine  or  instrument,  or  who  writes  or  prints,  or  causes  to 
be  written  or  printed,  a  card,  circular,  pamphlet,  advertisement  or 
notice  of  any  kind,  or  gives  information  orally,  stating  when,  where, 
how,  of  whom  or  by  what  means  such  an  instrument,  article,  recipe, 
drug  or  medicine  can  be  purchased  or  obtained,  or  who  manufac- 
