compliance or violation of the provisions of this act, and prosecute all persons so offending, whenever there shall appear to the board reasonable ground for such action. Laws 1887, p. 193–194.

Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. 110.

1. Regulation of sale of cocaine. No person shall sell, furnish or give away any cocaine, or any patent of proprietary remedy containing cocaine, except upon the prescription of a registered practicing physician, or of a dentist, or a veterinarian; nor shall any such prescription be refilled; nor shall any physician, dentist or veterinarian prescribe cocaine, or any patent or proprietary remedy containing cocaine, for any person known to such physician, dentist or veterinarian to be an habitual user of cocaine: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to persons engaged in the wholesale drug trade, regularly selling cocaine to persons engaged in the retail drug trade.

2. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment of not more than six months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court. Laws 1903, p. 259.

Brightly's Digest, 1903, p. 113.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

17. Prohibition. No person shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently falsify or adulterate, or cause to be falsified or adulterated, any drug or medical substance, or any preparation authorized or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or used or intended to be used in medicinal practice, or mix or cause to be mixed with any such drug or medicinal substance any foreign or inert substance whatsoever, for the purpose of destroying or weakening its medical power and effect, and wilfully, knowingly or fraudulently sell or cause the same to be sold for medicinal purposes.

18. Penalty. Any person who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to the commonwealth all articles so adulterated. Laws 1887, p. 193.

Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, vol. 1, p. 110.

10. "Drug" and "adulteration" defined; analyst employed; penalty. No person shall, within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale or sell, any drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this act. The term drug used herein shall include any medicinal substance or any preparation authorized or known in the "Pharmacopoeia of the United States," or the National Formulary," or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, or the American Homeopathic Dispensatory.

66

A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act: 1. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to depreciate and weaken its strength, purity or quality.

2. If any quality, substance or ingredient be abstracted so as to deteriorate or affect injuriously the quality or potency of the said drug.

3. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted in whole or part for it.

4. If it is an imitation or is sold under the name of another drug.

5. If the drug shall be so altered that the nature, quality, substance, commercial value or medicinal value of it will not correspond to the recognized

formulae or tests of the latest edition of the " National Formulary," or of the 'Pharmacopoeia of the United States," or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, or the American Homeopathic Dispensatory, regarding quality or purity.

66

On complaint being entered, the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board is hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemist expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into the so claimed adulteration and report upon the result of his investigation, and if said report justifies such action, the board shall duly cause the prosecution of the offender as provided in this law. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or undergo an imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both. Laws 1897, p. 85. Brightly's Digest, 1903, p. 53.

1. Adulteration of fruit syrups prohibited. Any person, firm, or corporate body who shall, by himself, herself or themselves, or by his, her or their agents or servants, manufacture, sell, ship, consign, offer for sale or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, any fruit-syrup which contains formaldehyde, sulphurous acid or sulphites, boric acid or borates, salicylic acid or salicylates, saccharine, dulcin, glucin, betanaphthol, abrastol, asaprol, fluorides, fluoborates, fluosilicates or other fluorine compounds; also any coal tar dyes, sulphate of copper, or any other coloring matter injurious to health, or any preservatives or their compounds injurious to health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. Penalty. Every person, firm or corporation, and every officer, agent, servant or employe of such person, firm or corporation, who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than sixty nor more than one hundred dollars, with the costs, or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

3. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the Dairy and Food Commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act, for which purpose he shall have the same power which is given him to enforce the provisions of the act authorizing his appointment.

4. Disposition of fines. All penalties or fines which may be recovered in any proceeding to enforce the provisions of this act shall be paid to the Dairy and Food Commissioner, or his agent, and by him paid into the State Treasury for the use of the Commonwealth.

Laws, 1905, p. 311 and 312.

ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH POISONS.

47. Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to make use of any active poison, or other deleterious drugs, in any quantity or quantities, in the manufacture or preparation, by process of rectifying or otherwise, of any intoxicating, malt or alcoholic liquors, or for any person or persons to knowingly sell such poisoned or drugged liquors in any quantity or quantities; and any person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Laws 1863, p. 389.)

Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, p. 1234.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

No special provision is made for the enforcement of the law prohibiting the adulteration of drugs.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

7. Practitioners of pharmacy must be registered. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice pharmacy in any of its branches in the Philippine Islands, without a certificate of registration from the Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners.

12. Practice of pharmacy defined. Any person shall be regarded as practicing pharmacy within the meaning of this Act who shall for a fee, salary, or other reward paid to himself or to another person, prepare, distribute, or sell any medicine, drug, pharmaceutical preparation, doctor's or veterinarian's prescription; but this provision shall not apply to students carrying on laboratory work in pharmacy in any legally chartered pharmaceutical school, nor to persons selling chemical products for industrial purposes, nor to persons selling mineromedicinal waters in bottles.

Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1903, vol. 8, p. 338-339.

18. Labeling; poison cabinet; prescriptions to be preserved. Every owner and proprietor of a pharmacy or drug store shall:

(a) Provide a seal containing an inscription giving the name of the pharmacy or drug store, and shall affix the same to every prescription, box, bottle or other package containing medicine sold in said pharmacy or drug store. He shall further label all medicines, except patent, proprietary, or other secret medicines or drugs, so as to designate their ingredients by name, or by the number of the prescription and the name of the physician writing it.

(b) Provide a cabinet in which shall be kept all violent poisons enumerated in section nineteen of this Act, and cause said cabinet to be locked when not in use.

(c) Preserve in a book kept for that purpose, consecutively numbered copies of all prescriptions filled.

Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1903, vol. 8, p. 341.

SALE OF POISONS.a

19. Record; label. Every person who dispenses, sells, or delivers any of the following violent poisons, to wit, arsenic, arsenical solutions, phosphorus, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium or other cyanide, atrophine, cocaine, morphine, strychnine, or any of their salts, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids or any of their salts, hydrocyanic acid, prussic acid, oil of bitter almonds containing hydrocyanic or prussic acid, oil of mirbane (nitro-benzene),

a See also sec. 18.

opium and its preparations, except paregoric and such others as contain less than 450 milligrams of opium per one hundred cubic centimeters (two grains to the ounce), shall make or cause to be made in a book kept for the purpose of recording the sale of such poisons an entry stating the date of each sale and the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the poison sold, and the purpose for which it was claimed to be purchased, before delivering it to the purchaser. He shall not deliver any such poison to any person without satisfying himself that such person is aware of its poisonous character, and that the poison is to be used for a legitimate purpose, and he shall affix to every box, bottle, or other package containing any dangerous or poisonous drug, a label of red paper upon which shall be printed in large black letters the word "poison", and a vignette representing a skull and bones, before delivering it to any person. Books kept for the purpose of recording the sale of poisons shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners, and of health officers or officers of the law, and every such book shall be preserved for at least five years after the last entry in it has been made.

20. Drugs to be labeled as poisonous but not registered; penalty. Every person who dispenses, sells, or delivers any aconite, belladona, cantharides, colchicum, conium, cotton root, digitalis, ergot, hellebore, henbane, phytolaca, strophanthus, oil of tansy, veratrum viride, or their pharmaceutical preparations, carbolic acid (phenol), chloral hydrate, chloroform, creosote, croton oil, mineral acids, oxalic acid, paris green, salts of lead, salts of zinc, tartar emetic, white hellebore, or any drug, chemical, or preparation which according to standard works of medicine or materia medica is liable to be destructive to human adult life in quantities of four grams (sixty grains) or less, without the prescription of a physician, shall label the receptacles containing them as is provided for poisons in section nineteen, but shall not be required to register the same.

Nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to the dispensing of medicines, drugs, or poisons on physicians' prescriptions, but no prescription the prescribed dose of which contains a dangerous quantity of poison shall be filled without first consulting the prescribing physician and verifying the prescription.

Any person violating the provisions of this or the preceding section shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

23. Exceptions. Except as to the labeling of poisons, this Act shall not apply to registered physicians putting up their own prescriptions or dispensing medicines to their patients; nor to persons selling drugs, medicines, chemicals, or poisons at wholesale only; nor to persons selling non-poisonous domestic remedies usually sold by grocers or merchants.

Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1903, vol. 8, p. 341–342.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

17. Pharmacists responsible for quality of products sold; penalty. Every registered pharmacist or second-class pharmacist (practicante de farmacia) shall be responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, medicines, and poisons he may sell or keep for sale; and it shall be unlawful for him to manufacture, prepare, sell or administer any prescription, drug, chemical, medicine, or

poison under any fraudulent name, direction or pretense, or to adulterate any drug, chemical, medicine, or poison so used or sold, or to sell or offer for sale any adulterated or deteriorated drug, chemical, medicine, or poison. Any drug, chemical, medicine, or poison shall be held to be adulterated or deteriorated within the meaning of this Act if it differs from the standard of quality or purity given in the United States Pharmacopoeia. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1903, vol. 8, p. 341.