The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-04

tain the name or the person Tor whom
 prescribed. or if ordered by a practi-
 tioner of veterinary medicine, shall state
 the kind of animal for which ordered, and
 shall be signed by the person giving the
 prescription or order. Such written order
 or prescription shall be preserved on file for a period of not less than five years
 by the person, firm or corporation who
 shall compound or dispense the article
 ordered or prescribed. and it shall not be
 again compounded or dispensed except
 upon the written order of the original
 prescriber for each and every subsequent
 compromising or dispensing. No copy or
 duplicate of such written order or pre-
 scription shall be made or delivered to
 any person, but the original shall at all
 times be open for inspection by the pre- scriber and properly authorized officers
 of the law, provided, however, that the
 above provisions shall not apply to prep
 arations containing not more than two
 grains of opium or not more than one
 fourth grain of heroin, or not more
 one-eighth grain of cocaine, or not more
 than one-eighth grain of alpha or beta
 eucaine in one fluid ounce, or If solid
 preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce-
 Provided also that the above provision
 shall not apply to preparations contain
 ing opium and recommended and sold in
 good faith for diarrhoea and cholera,
 each bottle or package of which is ac- companied by specific directions for use
 and a caution against habituar use, nor to powder of epieae and opium, common ly known as Dover's powders, nor to linaments or ointments when plainly la belled For external use." nor to the sale
 of laudanum in quantities not exceeding
 one ounce to the same person in one day.
 And provided further that the above pro- visions shall not apply to sales at whole sale by jobbers, wholesalers and manu- lecturers to general merchandise stores. to retail druggists or qualified physi- clans. or to each other, nor to sales at
 retail by retail druggists to regular prac- titioners of medicine, dentistry or veteri- nary medicine, or to each other, nor to
 sales made to manufacturers of proprie-
 tary or pharmaceutical preparations for
 use in the manufacture of such prepars-
 tions, nor to sales to hospitals, colleges,
 scientific or public institutions.
 Sec. 4. That 1t shall be unlawful in the
 city of Birmingham and within the police jurisdiction thereof for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to furnish to or to prescribe for the
 use of any habitual user of the same, any cocaine, heroin, alpha, or beta eucaine. opium, morphine. or any salt orr coni-
 pound of any Of the foregoing substances.
 or any preparation containing any of the foregoing substances or their salts or compound. And It shall also be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to pre-
 scribe any of the foregoing substances for
 any person not under his treatment in tho regular practice of his profession, O. for any practitioner of veterinary lnedi- cine to prescribe any of the forego- ing substances for the use of any human teing. Provided however that the pro visions of this ordinance shall not b. construed to prevent any lawfully au- thorized practitioner of medicine from furnishing or prescribing in good faith for the use of any habitual user oi narcotic drugs who is under his pro fessional care such substances as he may
 deem necessary for their treatment, wher such prescriptions are not given or sub stances furnished for the purpose of evad-
 ing the provisions of this ordinance.
 Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for an person to retail any poisons enumeratei in schedules "A" and "B,'' which arc
 as follows, except upon the conditionf
 hereinafter named: Schedule "A" arsenic and it's preparations, biniodide of mercury. cyanide of potassium, carbolic acid, hydro cyanic acid, strichnine and all other poisonous alxaloids and their salts not in cluded in section of this ordinance, and the essential oil of bitter almonds; sched- rle "B." aconite belladonna colchicum.
 
 cotton root, cantnarides, creosote, vera trium, digitales, and their pharmaceutica preparations, croton oil, chloroform, sul- phate of zinc, corrosive aublimate. rec precipitate. white precipitate, mineral acid and oxalic acid Provided that any Of the poisons included in schedule ..A'' may be legally sold by any registered pharma- cist, but ne shall before delivering the
 same to the purchaser cause an entry to be made in book kept for that purpose. stating the date of sale, name and ad- dress of the purchaser, the name O..
 poison sold and the amount the purpose for which 1t was repre- scented, by the pur chaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser, such book to be always open for inspection by the proper author ity, and to be preserved for at leas three years. Provided further that an. of the poisons named in schedule "B' may be legally sold, but only on the con
 dition that the person, firm or corpora- ton selling or furnishing the same sha label the box vessel or paper in whfc- the said poison is contained with the word spoison' and the name and the place of business of the seller. Nor shali | 1t be lawful for any registered pharmacist | to sell CT deliver any poisons enumerated above in schedules A and 'B" un- | less upon due inquiry it be found that | the purchaser is aware Of it's poisonous | used for legitimate purposes. The pro | visions of this section shall not apply | to the dispensing of poison in not un- usual quantities or upon the prescriptions of practitioners of medicine.
 | Sec. G. That every proprietor or manage of pharmacy, drug store or apothecars shop shall keep in his place of bushes 2 | a suitable book or file m which shall be preserved for a period of not less than | five years the original or a copy of tn same of every prescription compounded or dispensed at such store or pharmacy. numbering, dating and filing theT in the order in which they are compounded ana shall produce the same in court when ever lawfully required to do so. And upoi; | request the proprietor or manager fct I such store shall furnish to the prescribing physician snd may, except when other wise instructed by the prescribing physlr can, furnish to the person for whom sucii prescription was compounded or diH- | pensed, a true and correct copy there- of and said book or file shall at all times
 be open for inspection by duly authorised officers of the law. Provided that no copy be given of prescriptions contain l ing any of the substances included In section S of this ordinance.
 Sec q That any person dncludinE as- sociations firm or corporatton) who shA violate any of the provisions Of this oS dnance shell upon conviction be lined no more thsn one hundred N10O) dollars ane may also be imprisoned at hard labor for the city for not more than six nonthf enc or both Provided, that no prosecution shall be brought for the saIc of any paterf or proprietary medicine containing ans of the drugs or preparations hereinbefors mentioned until the state board cf rharmacy shall certify that such ,nedi- cine contains any of the said drugs of