Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-02
The Sale Of Poisons.

A CIRCULAR OF THE STATE BOARD OF
The Virginia State Board of Pharmacy
has issued the following: 1.-THE State
Board of Pharmacy desires to draw the at
tention of merchants throughout the State
to the feature of the poison law which pro-
hibits the sale of all kinds Of poison except
by properly qualified, regist cred druggist.
Embraced in the list of poisons is arsenic
largely used by truckers and gardeners for
the destruction of potato bugs and other
nOxiOus insects, is one of the latter, de-
pending chiefly for its efficacy on the arse
mic it contains, the board takes this method
of notifying all dealers in it that the law will
sale confined only to those who are legally
authorized.
PROVISIONS OF THE LAW.
Section 1853. of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act of the General Assembly
approved March 5, 1894, provides that iii
shall not be lawful for any person to en-
gage in the business OF occupation of com
pounding OF dispensing medicine OF pre-
scriptions of physicians, OF otherwise, Oh
of selling at retail. any drugs, chemicals.
poisons, medicines, or pharmaceutical pre-
parations within this State without first
obtaining certificate of registry as pro
vided.'
Section 1763, of the Code, as amended by
the same act. prescribes the following:
s'It shall not be lawful for any person
having authority to sell OF dispense medi-
cines OF poisons, to retail any poisons EMU
merated in the following schedules. ga. ,
and "B." without distinctly labelling the
bottle, box, vessel, OF paper in which said
poison is contained with the name of the
article and the word POISON and the
name and place of business of the seller
and in addition thereto at least two of the
most readily obtained effective antidotes to
such poisonous article.
ssSchedule "a. Arsenic and its prepa-
rstions, corrosive sublimate, biniodide of
mere ury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocya
nc aclQ, SCfyclnlle stilu lCS SellS, dlu eSSell
tial oil of bitter almonds.
'sSchedule 'B.'-Aconite, belladonna
nuX vomica, Savin, ergOt, cotton root, can
tharides, digitalis, colchicum, conium, hen
bane and their pharmaceutical preparations
creasote, croton oil, chloroform, chlorai by
drate, carbolic acid. oxalic acid, white and
red precipitate, morphine and its prepare
lions, opium and its preparations, except
paregoric and other preparations of opium
containing less than two grains to the
ounce, and all other deadly poisons.''
This law, however, does not prevent the
sale by merchants of qninine, epson salts,
castor oil, essence Of peppermint and the
following preparations: Calomel. camphor,
iodide, bromide and chlorate of potassa,
paregoric and sweet oil, and such other do
nestle and proprietary medicines 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.
Any person violating the provisions of
sections 1853 and 1853 shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be fined not less than Sic
nor more than 500, and each day that the
said provisions, or any Of them, are violat-
ed, shall constitute a separate and distinct
offence.