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1  September,  1902. 
tures  any  such  instrument,  article,  recipe,  drug  or  medicine,  is  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  liable  to  the  same  penalties  as  pro- 
vided in  Section  I  of  this  Act." 
In  correspondence  with  secretaries  of  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  ot 
all  the  States  in  the  Union  where  such  a  board  exists,  we  have  the 
answers  from  thirty-eight  (38),  most  of  whom  give  some  attention  to 
this  very  important  subject.  Some  States,  however,  have  no  poison 
law.  The  following  have,  and  in  order  to  make  the  paper  as  com- 
plete as  possible  for  comparison,  and  to  determine  where  we  fail  to 
be  as  careful,  or  more  so,  than  other  States,  we  note  as  follows  : 
We  have  briefly  summarized,  except  in  a  few  instances,  where  we 
quote  largely.  We  find  many  States  have  adopted  the  two  schedules 
A  and  B,  as  follows : 
SCHEDULE  A. 
Arsenic  and  its  preparations;  corrosive  sublimate;  white  and  red 
precipitate;  bin-iodide  of  mercury;  cyanide  ot  potassium;  hydro- 
cyanic acid ;  strychnia  and  all  other  poisons ;  vegetable  alkaloids 
and  their  salts;  essential  oil  of  bitter  almonds;  opium  and  its  prep- 
arations, except  paregoric  and  other  preparations  of  opium  with  less 
.than  two  grains  to  the  ounce. 
SCHEDULE  B. 
Aconite  ;  belladonna  ;  colchicum  ;  conium  ;  nux  vomica  ;  hen- 
bane ;  savin ;  ergot ;  cotton  root ;  cantharides ;  creosote  ;  digitalis 
and  their  pharmaceutical  preparations  ;  croton  oil ;  chloroform ; 
chloral  hydrate  ;  sulphate  of  zinc ;  mineral  acids,  carbolic  acid  and 
oxalic  acid. 
Alabama. — Alabama  merges  Schedules  A  and  B  into  one  and  in- 
cludes emmenagogue  drugs.  The  minimum  penalty  is  $10  and  the 
maximum  is  $25  for  violation. 
Arkansas. — Arkansas  has  a  special  poison  law  to  regulate  the 
^sale  of  cocaine,  which  can  be  sold  only  on  the  prescription  of  a  phy- 
sician. A  section  of  this  Act  regulates  also  the  sale  of  arsenic  and 
its  compounds,  strychnia  and  its  salts,  corrosive  sublimate,  hydro- 
cyanic acid,  phosphorus,  opium,  morphine,  laudanum.  The  seller 
must  label  plainly  in  English.  No  registry  required.  Minimum 
penalty  is  $25,  and  the  maximum,  #100. 
California. — California  has  Schedules  A  and  B,  and  has  the  penalty 
