Am.  Jour.  Pharui.  ) 
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Habit -Forming  Drugs. 
any  preparation  containing  same.  It  is  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation  to  manufacture  any  catarrh  remedy  or  patent  or  proprietary 
preparation  containing  cocaine  or  eucaine  or  any  synthetic  substitute. 
Michigan  (1907). — Specific  and  poison  regulations.  Cocaine,  morphine, 
eucaine,  their  salts  and  derivatives.  The  law  of  1905  exempts  morphine  in 
pill  and  tablet  form  when  sold  in  quantities  not  less  than  %  ounce  original 
packages,  but  the  law  of  1907  exempts  "  morphine  "  itself  when  sold  in  not 
less  than  the  above  quantity  in  original  packages. 
Minnesota  (1905). — Similar  to  Florida,  except  misbranding  regulation. 
Mississippi  (1900).— Similar  to  Florida,  except  misbranding  regulation. 
The  law  of  1886  requires  a  scarlet  wrapper  with  white  letters  for  cocaine, 
morphine  and  their  salts. 
Missouri  (1905). — Similar  to  Arkansas. 
Montana. — Similar  to  Idaho. 
Nebraska  (1905). — Similar  to  Florida,  except  scarlet  wrapper. 
Nevada. — Similar  to  Idaho. 
New  Hampshire  (1907). — Misbranding  regulations.  The  poison  schedule 
covers  only  arsenic,  corrosive  sublimate,  mix  vomica,  strychnine  and  prussic 
acid. 
New  Jersey  (1908). — Specific,  poison  and  misbranding  regulations. 
Cocaine,  alpha-  or  beta-eucaine,  their  salts  and  any  preparation  containing 
any  of  the  foregoing,  morphine,  opium,  codeine,  chloral  hydrate,  or  any 
derivative  of  chloral  hydrate.  The  New  Jersey  law  contains  several  excellent 
features  which  deserve  particular  mention.  In  the  first  place,  it  forbids 
the  bringing  into  the  state  of  any  substance  or  mixture  of  substances  which 
shall  be  purchased  or  otherwise  obtained  contrary  to  the  laws  of  such  state. 
It  also  requires  that  the  "  wholesale  dealer  or  registered  druggist  shall, 
before  delivering  any  of  said  articles,  make  or  cause  to  be  made  in  a  book 
kept  for  that  purpose,  an  entry  of  the  sale  thereof,  stating  the  date  of  the 
sale,  the  quantity,  name  and  form  in  which  sold,  the  name  and  address  of 
the  person  purchasing  the  same  and  by  whom  the  entry  is  made,  and  the 
said  book  shall  be  always  open  for  inspection  by  the  proper  authorities,  and 
shall  be  preserved  for  at  least  five  years  after  the  date  of  the  last  entry  made 
therein." 
New  Mexico  (1897). — Similar  to  Arizona. 
New  York  (1907). — Specific  and  poison  regulations.  Cocaine,  eucaine, 
their  salts  and  preparations  containing  same.  The  law  also  requires  that 
"  each  manufacturer  and  each  wholesale  dealer  in  drugs  shall,  before  the 
delivery  or  at  the  time  of  the  receipt,  as  the  case  may  be,  of  any  such  drug, 
enter  or  cause  to  be  entered  in  a  book  kept  by  them  respectively  for  that 
purpose  a  record  of  the  purchase  and  sale  of  such  drug,  stating  the  date 
of  purchase  and  the  name  and  address  of  the  person  from  whom  purchased ; 
the  date  of  sale  and  the  name  and  address  of  the  person  to  whom  sold ; 
the  quantity,  name  and  form  in  which  sold  and  a  description  of  the  package 
or  container  in  which  sold  and  how  sealed,  and  there  shall  also  be  entered 
in  such  book  at  the  place  of  such  record  a  statement  that  such  drug  was 
sold  or  purchased,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  the  original  package ;  that  the 
seals  thereon  were  undamaged  and  unbroken,  and  the  labels  were  attached 
