250  Pharmacy  Laws  and  Legislation.  {Am-ia"'i9M?rm* 
or  persons  reside  at  the  time  of  commission  of  said  offense,  not  less 
than  thirty  days  nor  more  than  ninety  days  imprisonment,  only  in 
the  discretion  of  the  court. 
The  expression,  "  active  property  or  principle  of  morphine,"  and 
in  the  2d  Section,"  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  where  the  person 
or  persons  reside  at  the  time  of  commission  of  said  offence,"  are 
excellent  examples  of  the  use  of  language  to  conceal  thought,  and 
are  samples  of  the  careless  phraseology  in  many  of  the  existing 
pharmacy  laws. 
Decisions  of  Interest  to  Pharmacists. 
lawfulness  of  combinations  to  maintain  prices  sustained. 
The  suit  of  the  Los  Angeles,  California,  cutters  against  the  Re- 
tailers' Association  and  the  jobbers  of  that  city,  for  $50,000 
damages  received  because  of  an  alleged  unlawful  combination  to 
prevent  the  plaintiffs  from  procuring  goods,  has  been  decided  in 
favor  of  the  defendants.  The  court  in  its  opinion  follows  the  line 
of  recent  decisions  and  maintains  the  principle  that  the  producers  or 
sellers  of  an  article  have  the  right  to  fix  the  price  at  which  the 
same  may  be  sold,  and  to  refuse  to  supply  the  same  to  others  who 
will  not  agree  to  maintain  such  prices. 
RESPONSIBILITY  OF  DRUGGISTS  FOR  POISONOUS  PRESCRIPTIONS. 
A  recent  police  court  decision  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  is  of  interest  to 
pharmacists. 
The  case  was  as  follows  :  A  physician  gave  a  druggist's  clerk  a 
verbal  prescription  to  put  up  a  certain  quantity  of  tincture  of 
aconite,  to  be  labeled  "  ten  drops  in  a  glass  of  water  and  then  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour,"  which  was  done.  The  mother  of  the  child 
gave  it  first  the  ten  drops  in  a  glass  of  water,  and  an  hour  later  a 
teaspoonful  of  the  pure  tincture,  resulting  of  course  in  the  death  of 
the  patient.  The  clerk  who  put  up  the  prescription  was  arrested 
under  the  law  given  below. 
The  Ohio  label  law,  divested  of  superfluous  verbiage,  declares 
that  when  any  dealer  shall  sell  any  drug  or  medicine  an  indiscrimi- 
nate or  careless  use  of  which  would  be  destructive  to  human  life,  he 
shall  affix  to  each  bottle  or  package  a  label  in  red  ink,  bearing  the 
name  of  the  drug,  skull  and  cross  bores,  the  words  caution  and 
poison,  and  the  names  of  at  least  two  of  the  most  readily  obtainable 
