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shall  compound  or  dispense  the  articles  ordered  or  prescribed,  and  it  shall  not 
be  recompounded  or  dispensed  a  second  time,  except  upon  the  written  order  of 
the  original  prescriber. 
Provided,  however,  that  the  above  provisions  shall  not  apply  to  preparations 
containing  not  more  than  2  grains  of  opium,  or  not  more  than  x/%  grain  of  mor- 
phine, or  not  more  than  2  grains  of  chloral  hydrate,  or  more  than  grain  of 
cocaine  in  1  fluidounce  or  if  a  solid  preparation  in  1  avoirdupois  ounce.  Pro- 
vided also  that  the  above  provisions  shall  not  apply  to  preparations  recom- 
mended in  good  faith  for  diarrhoea  and  cholera,  each  bottle  or  package  of  which 
is  accompanied  by  specific  directions  for  use,  or  a  caution  against  habitual  use, 
nor  to  liniments  or  ointments  when  plainly  labelled  "  for  external  use  only  ;  " 
and  provided  further,  that  the  above  provisions  shall  not  apply  to  sales  at 
wholesale  by  jobbers,  wholesalers  and  manufacturers  to  retail  druggists,  nor  to 
sales  at  retail  by  retail  druggists  to  regular  practitioners  of  medicine,  dentistry 
or  veterinary  medicines,  nor  to  sales  made  to  manufacturers  of  proprietary 
or  pharmaceutical  preparations  for  use  in  the  manufacture  of  such  preparations, 
or  to  sales  to  hospitals,  colleges,  scientific  and  public  institutions. 
SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  practitioner  of  medicine,  dentistry  or 
veterinary  medicine,  to  furnish  to  or  to  prescribe  for  the  use  of  any  habitual 
user  of  the  same,  any  cocaine  or  morphine,  or  any  salt  or  compound  of  cocaine 
or  morphine,  or  any  preparation  containing  cocaine  or  morphine  or  their  salts, 
or  any  opium  or  chloral  hydrate  or  any  preparation  containing  opium  or  chloral 
hydrate.  And  it  shall  also  be  unlawful  for  any  practitioner  of  dentistry  to  pre- 
scribe any  of  the  foregoing  substances  for  any  person  not  under  his  treatment 
in  the  regular  line  of  his  profession,  or  for  any  practitioner  of  veterinary  medi- 
cine to  prescribe  any  of  the  foregoing  substances  for  the  use  of  any  human 
being.  Provided,  however,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  con- 
strued to  prevent  any  lawfully  authorized  practitioner  of  medicine  from  pre- 
scribing in  good  faith  for  the  use  of  any  habitual  user  of  narcotic  drugs  such 
substances  as  he  may  deem  necessary  for  the  treatment  of  such  habit. 
SEC.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  knowingly  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
Act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  for  the  first 
offense,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $25  nor  more  than  $50,  and  upon  conviction 
for  the  second  offense  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $50  nor  more  than  $100,  and 
upon  conviction  for  the  third  and  all  subsequent  offenses,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  $100  nor  more  than  $200,  and  shall  be  confined  in  the  county  jail  for  not 
more  than  six  months.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Grand  Jury  to  make  pre- 
sentments for  violations  of  this  Act. 
THE  DRUG  MARKET  FOR  1902- 1903. 
The  following  is  a  portion  of  a  report  presented  by  the  Commit- 
tee on  Drug  Market  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
at  the  meeting  in  August,  1903,  and  read  by  E.  H.  Gane: 
Acid  hydrochloric,  C.  P.:  Three  carboys.  All  gave  zinc,  apparently 
from  zinc  cap  of  carelessly  closed  carboys. 
