Am  Jour.  Pharm.l 
September,  1902.  J 
Sale  of  Poisons. 
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it  be  renewed  by  the  physician.  Penalty  ot  $50  attached  for  viola- 
tion. It  further  provides  that  cocaine  and  its  salts  shall  be  sold  at 
wholesale  only  to  pharmacists  registered  under  this  Act  to  legally 
qualified  physicians  and  dentists. 
Lotrisicma. — Louisiana  has  a  special  Act  prohibiting  the  sale  ot 
cocaine  except  on  written  prescription  of  a  physician  and  cannot 
repeat  prescriptions  under  penalty.  We  quote  two  sections  of  this 
law  on  account  of  its  peculiarity  : 
"  That  all  pharmacists,  druggists  or  apothecaries  shall  label  all 
bottles,  vials,  jars,  boxes,  parcels,  packages,  or  other  receptacles  or 
coverings  or  wrappings  of  drugs,  medicines  or  chemicals  sold  or 
dispensed  by  them,  with  a  label  in  legible  writing  or  printed  letters, 
giving  the  name  of  the  proprietor  of  the  store,  the  name  of  the 
physician  prescribing,  shop  and  the  place  of  sale  of  said  drug,  medi- 
cine or  chemical ;  and  in  case  the  medicine,  drug  or  chemical  be  of 
a  nature  poisonous  to  the  human  system  or  to  animals,  said  label 
shall  have  printed  thereon  a  skull  and  cross-bones,  with  the  word 
'Poison '  in  large  heavy  lettering.  All  prescriptions  shall  have  in 
addition  thereto  a  number,  the  name  of  the  person  actually  and 
personally  compounding  the  same,  the  directions  for  its  use  inter- 
nally or  externally,  and  the  date  of  its  compounding. 
"  Section  8.  That  any  person  offending  against  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  ot  a  misdemeanor  against  the 
State  of  Louisiana,  and  shall  be  prosecuted  before  any  court  of 
criminal  jurisdiction,  and  if  adjudged  guilty,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  fifty  dollars  ($50)  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars 
{$100),  and  in  default  of  payment  thereof  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the 
parish  jail  for  not  more  than  thirty  (30)  days." 
Massachusetts. — Massachusetts  includes  with  most  of  the  articles 
found  in  Schedules  A  and  B,  M'Munn's  Elixir,  Parson's  Vermin 
Exterminator,  paris  green,  rough-on-rats,  oils  of  pennyroyal,  savin 
and  tansy,  phosphorus,  ergot  and  its  fluid  extract,  forbids  the  sale 
of  cocaine,  except  on  physicians'  prescriptions.  The  name  of  poison 
and  name  of  antidote  must  go  on  the  package.  Penalty  $50  and 
same  for  giving  fictitious  name. 
Maine. —  Maine  merges  Schedules  A  and  B  and  says,  whoever 
sells  without  a  written  prescription  of  a  physician  shall  register. 
No  sale  of  cocaine  or  its  salts  shall  be  made  except  by  dentists  or 
on  physician's  written  prescription.    Must  label  all  sales  not  made 
