Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-02
THE NEW DRUGGISTS LAW
ORGA TON OF THE EXAM
INING BOARD.

1ON-SCARLET PAIEh Yin OAoOAN0 - -
the State Board of Pharmacy created
under the law passed by the last legisia-
ture. met in Richmond Friday, and organ
lied with the following terms ascertaiheo
.by drawing Iots-Robt. Brydon CT Dan
Vile one year; Edgar Warield OF Alexah-
dria. two years; T. Roberts Baker OF
Richmond, three years, and }. W. Ihom-
as of Norfolk, four years. E. Il. Beck
with of Petersburg, was chosen secretary
and by virtue of such election serves nVe
years. T. Roberts Baker was chosen
President. The Board decided to meet
at Alexandria on the 18th May, When tney
will act upon all applications for reglstra
tion. All persons in business at the Time
of the passage of the law, are required TO
be registered within ninety days from the
date of the organization of the State
Board, or else appear before the Board
for examination. The law il view or the
trade to which it applies, IS OF local inter-
est everywhere and we publish its provis-
ions below. 1t will be seen that ltafects
to considerable extent other merchants
than druggists. 1t was approved by the
Governor on March 9th. 1885:
That after the passage Of this
act it shall not be lawf ul for any per-
son other than registe red pharmacist or
practcing physician, to retail, compound
or dispense medicines or pOisons, or to
open or conduct any pharmacy or store for
retailing, dispensing or compromising
drugs or medicines, unless such person
shall be, or shall employ and place in
charge OF said pharmacy or store. a regis
tered pharmacist within the meaning of
this act: provided, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent the sale by mer-
chants of quinjne, EPSON salts, castor oil,
essence of peppermint and other havorlng
preparations, calomel, camphor, lodlde,
bromide and chlorate of potassa, opium,
paregoric aud sweet oil, and such other
domestic and proprietary remedies as are
usually kept by retail dealers; but the sale
of laudanum. morphine and proprietary
medicines, must be in original packages,
as obtained from druggists.
Pharmacists claiming the rights OF reg
istration under this act. on account OF
practical experience, shall, within ninety
days after its passage, or after the organic
alton of the board, show to the satlsfac-
tion of the board of pharmacy to be cre-
ated by this act, that they have not less
than three years. practical experience in
the preparation OF physicians prescrip-
tiOns, and in compromising and vending
medicines aud pOisons: provided nothing
in this section shall apply to any person or
persons in business Oh their own account
upon the passage of this act. Llcentiates
in pharmacy must have not less than
three years experience previous to the
passage of this act, in stores where pre-
scrlpulonS of medical practitioners have
been prepared, or shall have passed an
examination before the board of pharma
CIV of the State: aud in all cases two years
of experience shall be required. The board
may register, without further examina-
tion, the lcentiates of such other boards
of pharmacy as they may deem proper,
Every person. from and after the pas
sage of this act, shall be held responsible
for the quality of all drugs. chemicals and
medicines he may lawfully sell or dispense,
with the exception of those sold in the
original packages Of he manufacturers,
or taken from original packages, and also
those known as patent medicines, and the
essences OF lemon, peppermint and cinna-
mon, put up for sale for favOring pur
poses, and should he Intentionally adul-
terate, or cause to be adulterated. or ex-
pose to SAFE. knowing the same to be adul-
terated, such drugs, chemicals or medical
preparations, he shall be deemed guilty ct
a misdemeanor; and upon conviction
thereof be liable to penalty of not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars. and in ad-
dition thereto, If he be a registered phar
macist. his name may be stricken from
the register. Every registered pharma-
cist, who desires to continue the practice
of his profession, shall annually thereaf-
ter, within thirty days next preceding.
the annual meeting of the board OF phar-
macy, pay to the Secretary of the said
board, registration fee of one dollar, for
which he shall receive a renewal Of said
certificate of registration. Any register
ed pharmacist failing to renew his regis
tration, as required by this section and
continuing in the exercise of his profess
sion, shall be guilty of mlsdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof published by
fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for
each offence.
It shall not be lawful for any person
who has authority to sell or dispense med
icines or poisons, under a penalty of TWEEN
ty-6ve dollars for each and every offence,
from and after the passage of this act.
except as provided herein, to retail any
poisons enumerated in schedules A and B,
as follows. t0-Wit:
Arsenic, and its preparations. corrosive
sublimate, white preclpitate, blniodide of
mercury, cyanide of potassium. hydrocy-
anic acid, stryehninef and essential oil Gf
bitter almonds
AcrnIte, belladona. colchicum, conium.
nux vomlca, henbane, savin. ergot, cotton
root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and
their pharmaceutical preparations; croton
oil, chloroform, choral hydrate, sulphate
of zinc, carbOlic acid, OXalic acid, prepara-
tions containing Opinm, except paFegorie
and other preparations of opium contain.
ing less than two grains to the ounce, and
other deadly polsons, without distinctly
labelling the bottle, box, vessel or paper
in which said poison is contained, with
the name of the article, the word poison.
and the name and PLACE of husipess of the
seller; nor shall it be lawful for any per-
son to sell or deliver any poison ennmer-
ated in said schedules A and B, unless
upon due enquiry it be found that the
purchaser is aware of its poisonous ma
ture, ane represents that it is to be used
for legitimate purpose; nor shall it be
lawful for any person to sell any poison
in schedule A. without, before delivering
the same to the purchaser, causing an
entry to be made in book kept for the
purpose, stating the date of the sale, the
name and address of the purchaser, the
name and quantity of the poison sold, the
purpose for WHICH it is represented by
The purchaser TO be required, and the
name of the dispenser; such book to be
always open to public inspection. The
provisions of this section snail not apply
to the dispensing of poisons in usual doses
on physieiansF prescriptions, put up BIZ
registered PHARMACISTS, OF dispensed by
the physycian.
Ifany person who shall permit, by viii.
full neglect, the compromising and dispan-
sing of prescriptions in bis store or place
of business by any person or persons not
registered, except under the immediate
supervision or control of registered
pharmacist; or any person not registered
who shall keep open shop for retailing or
as herein before provided, or who shall
fraudpiently represent hinself to be reg
istered, or any registered pharmacist. Or
any dealer in medicine. who shall fail to