Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-23
PHARMACY REGULATIONS.
Official Circular Issued by The Phar-
macy Commission.
Some Matters OF Interost TO Drug
gists aud the People lsener-
ally.

The commission Of pharmacy OF this state,
consisting Of Messrs. II. w. Crawford, Fort
Dodge; George II. Schafer, Fort Madison;
John II. Pickett, Ames, with C. A. Weaver.
secretary and treasurer, with Office at the cap
itol, have issued an official circular, dated
September II, giveing the regulations, amend
ed official forms and pharmacy and special no.
tees under which they shall expect all register
cd pharmacists TO act.
Regulations Nos. 5, 9, Z, s, 0, 10, II, 12, Is,
10, l6, II, and IS, have already been published.
They relate to the sale OF Paris green, homeo-
pathic medicine, renewals OF registrations, ex-
aminations for certificates fraud In reglstra
ton, changes in pharmacy law, revoking cortI'
tcates Of registration, itinerant vendors, green
seal forIeitures after two years, severance from
the drug business, sale Of "Rough on Rats"
the placing Of strip OF emery paper or cloth
around each bottle containing morphine or
other posons, official forms, sale of bittcrs,
cOrlials, cliXirs, Get, aud such "unolliciap'
remedies as are kept and are nonsccret prepar.
atoms that are made In ones own home, pro-
vidcd the same do not include any intoxicating
llquof or poisson.
The unpublished regulations Of the board
which may be Of interest to the people, are as
follows:
Form A was amended August II, 1886 (peti'
ton of freeholdcrs) form l. was amended May
T. 1876 duplicate applications for purchasers);
form + as amended July /, 1886 (monthly re-
ports to county aultors), are this day adopted
as official forms in accordance with law.
The duplicate applications for intoxicating
liquors as "a medicine must b, counterslgned
at the time each sale is made by the registered
pharmacist holding permit or BY his registered
clerk. No clerk, apprentice, or other persons
who is not a registered pharmacist can law
fully make such sales by form L or otherwise
County auditors are hereby authorized TO
refuse to issue shipping permits, unless the
registered pharmacist holding permit makes n
monthly report of sales of intoxicating liquors
or files an affidavit that he has made no sales
of same since date OF last report.
In all cases hereafter brought directly be-
fore the commission Of pharmacy for the pur-
pose OF revoklng certificates Of registration
for violations of sections z, 8 and 0, of the
pharmacy law, the petitioners will be required
to state name, locality and number OF certih-
cate, and to file with the secretary Of this
board aflidavits In duplicate specifically show
sought, whereupon written notice will be
served on the registered pharmacist against
whom such complaint is made, to show cause
within fifteen days, by aflldavlts in duplicate,
why such action should not be taken and his
name stricken from the register. The regis
tered Pharmacist contesting such action will
upon request be furnished one set Of the du-
plicate afIldavlts filed by petitioners, for the
purpose Of makelng his answer and the pc
titioncrs upon request will be furnished one
set Of the contestants affidavlts before such
Investigation is closed, and ten days time CIV
en- for filing repllcatlons by ailldaylts in rebuff
tai.
All pharmacy regulations to take effect and
be in force ten days after the date Of their
first publication in the official circular Of the
commission Of pharmacy.
WHEREAS Certain registered pharmacists
who are not qualified by law TO obtain q per-
NIT to sell intoxicating liquors, have by false
representation, fraud, or otherwise, secured
the signatures OF one-fourth of the freeholders
TO procure such premlts; and.
WHEREAS, In one instance.a board OF super
visors have issued permits on such showing,
Notwithstanding resident appeared, as pro-
vdei by law, "to show cause why such per
mits should not be granted" the commission
oil pharmacy give tnlS nOtce 10 WnOnsOeNcT III
may apply, that all parties who assume to act
under a premt fraudulently obtained will be
prosecuted for keeping or selling Intoxicating
liquors contrary to law, and thus contest the
validity Of such permit in the courts.
The recent amendment TO the pharmacy law
cures the defects that have heretofore in a
measure prevented the enforcement Of the law
against certain classes of itinerant vendors,
including itinerant vendors Of proprietary
medicines or so-called patent medicine, and
now q large number will be compelled TO retire
from the business or be required TO pay the
itinerant license fee Of 800 per annum as re-
qured by section 10, chapter 70, acts OF the
Eighteenth general assembly as now amend
ed.
We request all interested in the reinforcement
of the law to notify the commission Of any
OF the law, when they will be
prosecuted