Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-23
POISON.
The Druggists Moving for Legislation
to Regulate its Sale.
A Law Needed for Protection Against
Incompetent ApOthecaries.

Pharmaceutical Association, tOtake definite
action on the proposed law to regulate the
sale Of poisons and the practise Of pharmacy.
in IL State, was held at the rooms of the
Association at P. N. yesterday, Vice Pres
ident Albers, Of Knoxville, in the chair.
A. j. Albers and j. II. McCampbell, of
Knoxville, and j. II. Snively, of Nashville,
were elected members.
The following law, prepared by the leg
islative committee last spring, was unani-
mOusly adopted, and the committee in
structed to send it 70 the druggists of the
State and request them to secure the names
of their leading physicians and citizens to
a petition to the Legislature, asking its
passage:
GAN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF
PHARMACY, AND THE SALE OF POISoNS
AND MEDICINES.
s.Be it enacted by the General Assembly |
of the Commonwealth Of Tennessee: Sec
ton l. 1t shall be unlawful for any person /
unless a registered pharmacist, or register |
ed assistant pharmacist in the employ Of |
registered pharmacist, or unless acting as
an aid under the immediate supervision OF |
a registered pharmacist, or a registered as
sistant pharmacist, within the meaning OF
this act, to retail, compound, or dispense
pOisOns or medicines, except as hereinafter
provided.
'Sec. 2. Any person in order to be a re-
gistered pharmacist, or registered assistant
pharmacist, in the meaning Of this act,
shall be either a graduate in pharmacy, a
practicing assistant in pharmacy. Gradu-
ates in pharmacy shall be such as have OBJ
tanned diploma from regularly incOrpc-
rated College Of Pharmacy. Practieing
pharmacists shall be such persons as at or
prior 10 the passage of this act, have kept
and continue to keep open shops for COM
pounding and dispensing The prescriptions
of medical practitioners, and for the retail
inc of pOisOns and medicines; and who
shall have declared their intention in
writing Of keeping open shops for the COM
pounding of prescriptions Of medical practi-
tioners and the retailing of pOisOnS and
medicines, and all other persons
who, after the passage of this act,
shall have declared their intentions in
writing to open a shop for compromising
and dispensing the prescriptions Of medi-
cal practitioners and for retailing pOisOns
and medicines, and shall have passed a sat
isfactOTv examination before the State
Board OF Pharmacy. PTacticing assistants
in pharmacy shall be such persons as shall
have served FIVE years Immediately pre-
ceding the passage Of this act, in shop or
pharmacy where the prescriptions OF medi-
cal practitioners are compounded, and such
other persons as have served three years
apprenticeship in a shop or pharmacy where
| the prescriptions of medical practitioners
are compounded, and shall have passed a
satisfactory examination before the State
Board of Pharmacy.
s.Sec. 3. The Stale Board of Pharmacy
shall consist Of seven members, and imme-
diately after the passage Of this act, the
| Tennessee Pharmaceutical Association
| shall elect from among the most skillIul o.
| Is members the first Board OF Pharmacy,
| two Of whom shall be from East, two from
/ Middle. and two from West Tennessee.
| And two of whom shall be elected for the
| term Of one year, two for two years, and
| two for three years. And at each subse-
| Guent annual meeting, two shall be elected
| 20 fill the expired terms. The Board, as
| elected. shall at once proceed to elect a sec
| rotary from among the members Of tie As
| ISOLATION, residing in the State capital, who
| shall have all tine rights and privileges ola
member Of the Board. The BoarO shall
have power to fiji ali its vacancies.
''Sec. /. Three members OF said Board
shall constitute a quorum. said Board
| shall organize by the election OF Presi-
| dent and Secretary, both Of whom shall
| sign all certificates and official documents.
said Board shall meet twice year on the
| twentieth day IF May, and on the twenti-
| eth day of November, and shall have power
10 make bylaws and al necessary regTIla-
! tions for the proper fUlfliment Of their
| duties under this act. Il Secretary OF
| said Board shall also be registrar of phar-
I r.E-.- ~ Toll
to examine all applicants for registrations,
90 direct the registration by the registrar
| OF all persons properly qualified or entitled
! thereto, and report every two years to the
| General Assembly on tie condition Of
pharmacy, together with the names Of all
! registered pharmacists and assistant phar-
| maciSts.
"Sec. :. The duties Of the Registrar of
| Pharmacists shall be to keep book, in
which shall be entered, under the super
vision Of the State Board Of Pharmacy, the
| name and place Of business of every person
who shall be qua flied for registration. 1t
shall be the duty Of the registrar to duly
note the fact against the name Of any reg
| istered pharmacist. or assistant pharmacist,
who mayshave died. or removed from the
State. or disposed of, or relinquished his
| business. and TO make all necessary altera-
tons in the location Of persons registered
under this act.
s.Sec. s. Every person who shall be reg
istered under this act shall pay to the STATE
Board Of Pharmacy five dollars, and shall
be furnished, free Of expense, with GER
! tiiCate of registration. ANY registered as
| sistant pharmacist may, with the consent of
! said Board, be entitled TO registration as
| registered pharmacist. and shall be fur
nished with certificate Of registration, for
| which he shall pay the registrar two dol
| lars. Every registered pharmacist and neg
! istered assistant pharmacist shall be fur
| nished Ey the Registrar of Pharmacists
! with a renewal certificate annually, for
| which renewal certificate he shall pay two
dollars.
'1Sec Z. Any person or persons not reg
| istered pharmacists, who shall, after the
passage Of this act, prepare, or dispense, or
sell at retail any pOisonS or medicines, or
shall take, use, or exhibit TIE title OF reg
istered pharmacist, or any person who shall
violate any Of the provisions Of this act,
shall, upon the first conviction, be senien-
ced to pay a fine of fifty dollars, 5nd upon
the second and every subsequent eOnvic-
tion, shall be sentenced to pay tine OF one
hundred dollars.
! sec =. nc itCo LCNElhCN ADi N-NtllAAAAAeN
ton, registration and certificate, and re
neWll certificates, and all fines under this
act, shall be appropriated 10 defray the ex-
pense of the State Board of Pharm acy.
"Sec. 0. This act shall apply to every
town or city where there are two or more
drug stores Or pharmacies.
s'Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be
construed to apply to any practitioner OF
medicine who does not keep open shop for
cOmDOuuding and dispensing pOlsons or
medicines; nor shall it interfere with the
making aud wholesale jObbing Of prOprie-
tary medicines p0pulariy called patent
medcines.)
sSec. II. Il shall be the duty Of every
pharmacist to distinctly designate all poi
sonous medicines and other pOisOns by a
printed label with the name Of the article,
the word "pOisOn." and the usual antidOtes.
These labels to be prepared under the su-
pervisiOn Of the Tennessee Pharmaceutical
! Association, and furnished TO all the drug
gists in the State at absolute cost. When
these pOisons are wrapped in paper, a sec
Ond paper will be required with label Sc
curely placed on each; provided, that this
provision does not apply to physicians pre-
scriptions, when the name Of the physician
and the dose or directions for use are
l affacbad thfrafO