The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-11-24
DRUG PINCHER AROUND.
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graduate of some reputable and
properly chartered college of
pharmacy.
But nothing contained IN this
act shall IN any manner whatever
interfere with the business of
any practitioner of medicine, nor
prevent him from administering
or supplying to his patients such
articles as to him may seem fit
aud proper, nor shall 1t interfere
with the making and dealing in
proprietary remedies, popularity
called patent medicines, nor pre-
vent storekeepers from dealing
in and selling the com monty used
medicines and polsons, if such
medicines and polsons conform
in all respects to the require
ments of section 8, provided the
provision of section 10 OF this act
be fully complied With.
Any person who shall violate or
fail to comply with the provisions
of this sec ION shall be guilty of a
mlsdemeanor, and upon convic
ton before any court shall be
punished by fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or be i'm
prisoned in the county jail of the
proper county for term not ex.
ceedlng one year, or either or
both at the discretion of the
court.
The section 10 referred to says:
"No person shall sell at retail
any poison except as herein pro
vlded, without affixlng to the
bottle, box, vessel or package
containing the same a label,
printed or plainly written, con-
tanning the name of the article,
the word POISON and the name
and place of business of the sell
Ter; nor shall he deliver poison 10
any person without satisfying
himself that such poison is to be
used for Legitimate purposes.
1t shall be the further duty of
any one selling or dispensing
poison, which are known to be
Obstructive to adult human life IN
quantities of i've grains or less,
before delivering them, to enter
IN book kept for this purpose
the name of the seller, the name
and residence of the buyer, the
name of the article, quantity sold
or disposed of, and the purpose
for which 1t is SAID to be intend
ed, which book of registry shall
be preserved for at least two
years.
Any person failing to comply
with the provision of this section
shall be deemed guilty of a mis-.
demeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than five nor more
than fifty dollars for each and
every offence.
Also, section 20 of the act of
the 18th of March, 1909 saws: No
apothecary, druggist, or other
person shall sell or dispose of by
retail any morphia, strychnia,
arsenic, prussic acid, carbolic
acid, or corrosive subllmate, ex.
cept upon the prescription of a
physician, or on the personal ap-
pllcation OF some respectable in.
habltant, of full age, of the town
or place in which such sale shall
be made; IN all cases OF such sale
the word polson shall be careful
ly and legibly marked or placed
upon the the label, package, bot
tie, or other vessel or thing, in
which such poison is contained:
and when sold or disposed of
otherwise than under the pre-.
scriptlon of physician, the
apothecary, druggist, or other
person selling or disposing of the
same, shall note in a register,
kept for that purpose, the name
and residence of the person to
whom such sale was made, and
the quantity sold, and the date of
such sale; any person offending
herein shall be guilty of a mlsde.
meanor, and, on conviction, shall
be sentenced to pay fine not ex.
ceeding fifty dollars.