366  Pharmacy  Law  of  Pennsylvania.  {Am'jSy,ri887harm' 
pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States,  or  used  or  intended  to  be  used  in  med- 
icinal practice,  nor  mix  or  cause  to  be  mixed  with  any  such  drug  or  medi- 
cinal substance  any  foreign  or  inert  substance  whatsoever  for  the  purpose 
of  destroying  or  weakening  its  medicinal  power  and  effect,  and  willfully, 
knowingly  or  fraudulently  sell  or  cause  the  same  to  be  sold  for  medicinal 
purposes. 
Any  person  who  shall  violate  this  section  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding five  hundred  dollars,  and  shall  forfeit  to  the  commonwealth  all  arti- 
cles so  adulterated. 
Section  10.  POISONS.  A  poison  in  the  meaning  of  this  act  shall  be  any 
drug,  chemical  or  preparation  which,  according  to  standard  works  on  med- 
icine 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  provided  with- 
out affixing  to  the  bottle,  box,  vessel  or  package  containing  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  legitimate  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  disposed  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  may  be  kept. 
The  provisions  of  this  secticn  shall  not  apply  to  the  dispensing  of  phy- 
sicians' prescriptions  specifying  poisonous  articles,  nor  to  the  sale  to  agri- 
culturists of  such  articles  as  are  commonly  used  by  them  as  insecticides. 
Any  person  failing  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  not  less  than  five,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense. 
Section  11.  Any  graduate  of  an  accredited  medical  college  who  has  had 
not  less  than  three  years  continuous  practice  since  the  date  of  his  diploma, 
and  who  is  registered  as  a  practitioner  of  medicine  and  surgery  under  the 
act  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  registration  of  all  practitioners  of 
medicine  and  surgery,"  approved  the  eighth  day  of  June,  Anno  Domini  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-one,  may  be  registered  under  this  act 
without  examination,  and  be  granted  a  certificate  which  shall  entitle  him 
to  conduct  and  carry  on  the  retail  drug  or  apothecary  business  as  proprietor 
or  manager  thereof,  subject  to  fees  provided  in  sections  three  and  four  of 
this  act. 
Section  12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining 
Board  to  investigate  all  complaints  and  charges  of  non-compliance  or  vio- 
