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can  obtain  anything  they  want  either  in  person  or  by  proxy — the 
latter  may  be  a  child  or  an  idiot.  A  note  written  by  the  party 
desiring  a  poison  can  have  it  if  the  dealer  wants  to  sell  it.  Would 
it  not  be  wise  to  interest  the  pharmacists  of  the  State,  and  more 
particularly  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  or  the  Committee  on  Legisla- 
tion, to  use  their  influence  for  properly  amending  Section  10  of  the 
Act  of  1 89 1,  so  that  we  may  have  a  greater  safeguard  in  the  sale  ot 
poisons  ?  The  writer  believes  that  children  should  not  be  the  car- 
riers of  either  laudanum  or  morphia,  in  granules  or  powders,  nor  any 
other  poisonous  preparations,  and  that  the  law  should  be  so  specific 
that  parents  and  others  must  realize  the  importance  of  applying  in 
person  or  use  adults  in  the  transaction  of  such  business.  We  do 
not  believe  that  the  custom  of  selling  poisons  to  minors  prevails  to 
any  great  extent,  but  the  way  is  open  for  the  dealer  to  do  so,  and 
therefore  our  law  for  the  sale  of  poisons  should  be  made  more 
effective. 
New  York. — New  York  has  Schedules  A  and  B.  Includes  white 
hellebore  and  all  preparations  liable  to  poison  in  quantities  of  sixty 
grains  or  less.  Must  satisfy  himself  that  the  purchaser  is  aware  of 
the  poisonous  character  of  the  article.  Must  register.  Must  use  a 
red-ink  label  and  mark  well — poison !    Must  register  all  sales. 
Ohio. — "Section  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  know- 
ingly sell  or  deliver  to  any  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  except 
upon  the  written  order  of  an  adult,  or  to  sell  or  deliver  to  any 
person,  any  of  the  following  described  substances,  or  any  poisonous 
compound,  poisonous  combination  or  poisonous  preparation  thereof, 
to  wit. :  The  compounds  and  salts  of  antimony,  arsenic,  chromium, 
copper,  lead,  mercury,  zinc,  the  concentrated  mineral  acids,  oxalic 
and  hydrocyanic  acids  and  their  salts,  yellow  phosphorus,  carbolic 
acid,  the  essential  oils  of  almonds,  pennyroyal,  tansy  and  savin, 
croton  oil,  creosote,  chloroform,  chloral  hydrate,  cantharides,  or  any 
aconite,  belladonna,  bitter  almonds,  colchicum,  cotton  root,  cocculus 
indicus,  conium,  cannabis  indica,  digitalis,  hyoscyamus,  ignatia, 
lobelia,  nux  vomica,  opium,  physostigma,  phytolacca,  strophanthus, 
stramonium,  veratrum  viride,  or  any  of  the  poisonous  alkaloids  or 
alkaloidal  salts  or  other  poisonous  principles  derived  from  the  fore- 
going, or  any  other  poisonous  alkaloids  or  their  salts  or  any  other 
virulent  poison,  except  in  the  manner  following : 
"  It  shall  first  be  learned  by  due  inquiry  that  the  person  to  whom 
