AMMayT;i8?4RM'}    The  Practice  of  Pharmacy  in  the  U.  S.  211 
Section  one  makes  it  unlawful  for  any  person,  unless  a  registered 
pharmacist,  or  a  registered  assistant  in  pharmacy,  to  retail,  compound 
or  dispense  medicines  or  poisons. 
§  2.  A  person,  in  order  to  be  registered,  must  be  either  a  graduate? 
a  practicing  pharmacist  or  a  practicing  assistant  in  pharmacy. 
§  3,  defines  these  several  persons. 
§  4,  creates  a  Board  of  Pharmacy,  12  candidates  for  membership 
of  which  office  are  proposed  by  the  incorporated  colleges  of  this  State, 
from  among  whom  the  Governor  appoints  three  to  constitute  said 
Board.  Its  duties  are  :  to  examine  candidates,  to  supervise  registra- 
tion and  to  cause  the  prosecution  of  all  persons  violating  its  pro- 
visions. 
§  8.  Any  person  not  a  registered  pharmacist,  keeping  open  shop,, 
becomes  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  liable  to  a  penalty  of  no  less 
than  50  nor  more  than  200  dollars,  provided,  however,  that  in  rural 
districts  where  there  is  no  registered  pharmacist  within  two  miles,  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  retail  dealers  (in  or  of  what  is  not  mentioned)  to 
procure  licenses  from  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  at  a  fee  of  one  dollar,, 
to  sell  the  usual  medicines  and  poisons. 
It  further  provides,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  apply 
to,  or  in  any  manner  whatever  interfere  with,  the  business  of  a  whole- 
sale dealer  in  drugs  and  chemicals,  nor  with  the  making  and  dealing 
in  proprietary  remedies,  popularly  called  patent  medicines. 
What  has  been  quoted  is  the  sum  and  substance,  the  essence  by 
means  of  which  this  bill  is  going  to  meet  the  wants  of  the  State  and 
the  profession.  In  its  practical  points  it  closely  resembles  all  other 
laws  thus  far  brought  forward  in  any  of  the  States.  We  will  see  now 
how  it  will  operate  as  a  law  :  After  we  have  graduated,  been  ex- 
amined and  registered,  and  paid  all  the  various  licenses  and  fees,  a 
retail  dealer  in  a  rural  district,  who  may  be  dealing  in  hardware? 
dry  goods  or  groceries,  pays  one  dollar  and  then  can  sell  any  medi- 
cines or  poisons,  which  ever  he  pleases  !  A  wholesale  dealer  can  sell 
and  retail  all  the  various  drugs,  medicines  and  poisons,  which  we  are 
prohibited  from  selling,  without  paying  anything  whatever,  without 
being  registered  and  examined  !  After  we  have  been  examined  and 
registered,  and  paid  all  the  various  licenses  and  fees,  this  law 
especially  provides  against  interference  with  the  manufacturer  and 
dealer  in  quack-nostrums — he  may  go  on  swimmingly  ! 
Where  the  much  talked  of  protection  to  the  people,  the  protection 
