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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  September,  1906. 
regulating  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  nostrums  was  reported  to 
that  association  by  Dr.  Charles  Rice,  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott  and  Dr. 
Fred.  Hoffman,  some  twenty- five  years  ago,  at  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  Pittsburg. 
The  National  Pure  Food  Bill,  as  it  was  finally  adopted  in  both 
houses  of  Congress,  on  recommendation  of  the  joint  Conference 
Committee,  is  entitled  :  "  An  Act  preventing  the  manufacture,  sale 
or  transportation  of  adulterated  or  misbranded  or  poisonous  or  dele- 
terious foods,  drugs,  medicines  and  liquors,  and  for  regulating  traffic 
therein  and  for  other  purposes.'' 
The  law  itself  is  prefaced  by  the  statement  that  :  "  Any  person 
who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  law  shall  be  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor  and  for  each  offense  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
be  fined  not  to  exceed  $500  or  shall  be  sentenced  to  one  year's  im- 
prisonment, or  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  discretion 
of  the  court,  and  for  each  subsequent  offense  and  conviction  thereof 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $1,000  or  sentenced  to  one  year's  im- 
prisonment, or  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  discretion  of 
the  court." 
The  law  as  enacted  is  applicable  only  to  such  articles  or  prepara- 
tions as  may  occur  in  interstate  commerce  and  is  not  applicable  to 
preparations  or  products  that  have  a  purely  local  origin  and  sale. 
The  carrying  out  of  the  provisions  of  the  act  has  been  entrusted 
to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  and 
the  Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Labor,  and  the  examinations  of 
specimens  of  foods  and  drugs  are  to  be  under  the  direction  of  the 
Bureau  of  Chemistry  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture. 
The  term  "  drug,"  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  "  Shall 
include  all  medicines  and  preparations  recognized  in  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia  or  National  Formulary  for  internal  or  external 
use,  and  any  substance  or  mixture  of  substances  intended  to  be  used 
for  the  cure,  mitigation,  or  prevention  of  disease  of  either  man  or 
other  animals." 
Drugs  shall  be  deemed  adulterated : 
"  First.  If  when  a  drug  is  sold  under  or  by  a  name  recognized 
in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or  National  Formulary,  it  differs 
from  the  standard  of  strength,  quality,  or  purity  as  determined  by 
the  test  laid  down  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or  National 
Formulary  official  at  the  time  of  investigation:  Provided,  That  no 
