such antitoxin was sold and the date on which it was sold; if purchased upon a prescription of a physician, the name of the purchaser, as well as the name of the physician ordering the antitoxin. Such reports shall be made within twelve (12) hours of the date of sale.

Session Laws, 1905, p. 298.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

35971. Penalty. If any person shall fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose of sale any drug or medicine in such manner as to render the same injurious to the health he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars, and such adulterated drugs and medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed. (Laws, 1893, p. 392.)

3597k. Fraudulent mixing, coloring, etc. No person shall except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of medicine, mix, color, stain, or powder, order or permit, any other person to mix, color, stain or powder any drug or medicine with any ingredient or materials so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug or medicine with intent to sell the same, or shall sell or offer for sale any such drug or medicine so mixed, colored, stained or powdered. (Laws, 1893, p. 392.)

35971. Fraudulent mixing, coloring, etc., for gain; labels. No person shall mix, color, stain or powder, any article of food, drink or medicine, or any article which enters into the composition of food, drink or medicine with any other ingredient or material, whether too injurious to health or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell or offer the same for sale or order or permit any other person to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered, unless the same be so manufactured, used or sold, or offered for sale under its true and appropriate name, and notice that the same is mixed or impure is marked printed or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or vessel, containing the same, so as to be and remain at all times readily visible, or unless the person purchasing the same is fully informed by the seller of the true name and ingredients (if other than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such article of food, drink or medicine at the time of making sale thereof or offering to sell the same. (Laws, 1893, p. 392.)

3597n. Penalty. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any of the foregoing sections of this act shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months.

Mills' Annotated Statutes (Revised Supplement), vol. 3, 1904, p. 927-928.

238b. Use of word "honey" in designating drugs. The word "honey" shall not be used as part and parcel of the trade designation of drugs, medicines, confections, or any other article of trade or commerce, unless honey is actually employed as one of the ingredients, and to the full extent to which the use of such designation shall lead the purchaser to expect. (Laws, 1903, p. 19.)

Mills' Annotated Statutes (Revised Supplement), vol. 3, 1904, p. 101.

CONNECTICUT.

The commissioners of pharmacy are authorized to enforce the general law prohibiting the sale of adulterated drugs and medicines.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

4724. Compounding and vending of drugs. No person shall conduct or keep a place of any kind, for retailing drugs, medicines, poisons, or such chemicals as are used in compounding medicines, or compound or dispense prescriptions of a physician, or vend medicines or poisons, unless he shall have been licensed therefor, as hereafter in this chapter provided, or shall be under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist.

4729. Exceptions. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this chapter shall prevent a practicing physician from compounding his own prescriptions, or prevent the sale of proprietary medicines, or prevent the sale of any drugs, medicines, or poisons at wholesale either to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the arts, or prevent any person from becoming a partner in, or the proprietor of, a pharmacy conducted by a licensed pharmacist, or prevent the keeper of a country store from keeping for sale and selling such domestic remedies as are usually kept and sold in such stores; but such keeper shall not compound medicines, and medicinal preparations so kept, and recognized by the United States dispensatory, shall be compounded by a licensed pharmacist and marked by his label.

4730. Penalty. Every person who shall wilfully violate any provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter shall forfeit five dollars for each day that he shall continue such violation, one-half to him who shall prosecute to effect, and one-half to the town in which the offense is committed. Laws 1881, p. 71, and 73.

General Statutes, 1902, p. 1129, 1131.

SALE OF POISONS.

4733. Regulations. Every person who shall sell arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or cyanide potassium, shall affix to the package sold by him a label plainly marked with his name, date of sale, and the word "poison," and the name of the poison sold, and shall enter at the time of such sale on a book kept by him for that purpose the name of the purchaser, date of sale, name of poison, and the quantity sold, which book shall be kept open for public inspection, carefully preserved; and when he shall close his business, or remove from the town in which such business is carried on, or when said book shall be filled with such entries, it shall be deposited by him in the office of the town clerk of the town in which he may conduct his business; and any person who shall violate the preceding provisions of this section, or who, when purchasing any of the articles herein named, shall give a false or fictitious name to the vender thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. (Laws 1881, p. 73.)

4734. Labeling; penalty. Every person who shall sell any of the articles named in the schedule accompanying this section, marked schedule A, except when prescribed by a practicing physician, or sold at wholesale to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or in the arts, shall label the bottle, box, or wrapper containing any such article, with a label upon which shall be plainly written or printed the word "poison," and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one dollar.

SCHEDULE A.

Acid carbolic, ammoniated mercury, acid muriatic, chloroform, acid nitric, tincture aconite, acid sulphuric, tincture belladonna, acid oxalic, tincture digitalis, creosote, tincture opium, extract belladonna, tincture veratrum viride, sugar of lead, morphine, croton oil, nux vomica, cobalt, extract nux vomica, oil bitter almonds, opium, oil tansy, cocculus indicus, aqua ammonia, red oxide mercury, gelsemium, paris green, rat dynamite, rough on rats, or any article similar to the last three. (Laws 1882, p. 130.)

General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131.

[Sec. 4734 was amended (Public Acts, 1905, p. 298) by the addition of the following at the end of Schedule A: “wood or methylic alcohol under any name or in any mixture."]

4736. Regulations of sale of antitoxic serums. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale, or shall receive or solicit any order for the sale or delivery, within this state, of any article known as diphtheria antitoxine, or any article prepared from the blood serum of any animal, and intended to be used for a medicine, unless the receptacle containing such preparation bears a label, on which is placed the name and address of the producer, and upon such label, or upon a circular accompanying such receptacle, and enclosed with it in a sealed package, shall be printed or written the date of production and the value of the contents in antitoxine as measured by some generally recognized standard. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. The state board of health may procure from any dealer in antitoxine or other blood serum medicine samples of such articles and cause the same to be tested, and if by such test it shall be found that the article tested is not such as it is represented to be on the package, but of inferior quality, then the seller of such inferior article shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Laws 1895, p. 592.)

General Statutes, 1902, p. 1132.

1. Sale of cocaine and eucaine and salts thereof restricted. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, furnish, or give away any cocaine, salts of cocaine, eucaine or its salts, or any preparation containing any cocaine, or salts of cocaine, or eucaine or its salts, except upon the original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine or veterinary medicine, which order or prescription shall be dated, and shall contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or if ordered by a practitioner of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order; and such written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm, or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be recompounded or dispensed a second time except

upon the written order of the original prescriber; provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to sales at wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers, and manufacturers to retail druggists, nor to sales at retail by retail druggists to regular practitioners of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, or scientific or public institutions.

2. Penalty. Every person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. City, police, town, and borough courts, having criminal jurisdiction where established, and justices of the peace in towns where such courts do not exist shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this act and to impose penalties therefor. (Approved, June 7, 1905.)

Public Acts, 1905, p. 336.

1216. Unlawful exposure of poison. Every person who shall, negligently or maliciously, place any poison, or poisoned food, in any public place, or on premises not exclusively occupied by himself, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both. (Laws 1860, p. 30.)

General Statutes, 1902, p. 360.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

4732. Penalty. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate, or cause any foreign or inert substance to be mixed with, any drug or medicinal substance or preparation recognized by any pharmacopœia, or employed in medicinal or medical practice, so as to weaken or destroy its medicinal effect, or shall sell any such drug, compound, or preparation, knowing it to be so adulterated or mixed, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all such adulterated or mixed articles in his possession may be seized upon a warrant issued by the court in which such conviction is had, and destroyed by the officer by whom such seizure shall be made. (Laws 1881, p. 73.)

General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131.

4731. Commissioners of pharmacy to enforce law. Said commissioners may examine into all cases of alleged abuse, fraud, and incompetence; cause the prosecution of all persons not complying with the provisions of this chapter, and suspend and revoke the registration of any person convicted of violating the same.

General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131.

DELAWARE.

No law exists specifically prohibiting the adulteration of drugs.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

1. Exclusive rights defined. It shall be unlawful for any person to open, conduct or manage within the corporate limits of any town in this State, any pharmacy, drug store, or other place for the retailing, compounding or dispensing of drugs, medicines or poisons, unless such person shall be registered as a pharmacist under the provisions of this act. Nor shall the sale of patent, quack or proprietary articles be lawful except in regular licensed stores under a penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense.

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3. Restrictions as to compounding of physicians' prescriptions. No person who shall conduct or manage any pharmacy, drug store, or other place for the retailing, compounding or dispensing of drugs, medicines or poisons for medical use shall permit or suffer at any time, any clerk or other employe to be left in charge of same unless said person be registered as a proprietor or manager according to the provisions of Section 2, chap. 36, vol. 18, Laws of Delaware, or be registered as a qualified assistant according to the provisions hereinafter stated. * Nor shall any proprietor or manager of any pharmacy permit any clerk or other person who has had less than two years' practical experience in the retail drug business to compound and dispense any physician's prescriptions except under the immediate directions of the proprietor or manager. Any person who shall not comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each day whereon such violation occurs or is continued, one-half of fine imposed to go to the State Board of Pharmacy and the balance to the county in which such violation occurs. (Laws, 1887, p. 81-82, as amended 1897.)

Laws (Revised Code), 1893, p. 368.

SALE OF POISONS.

4. Records; penalty. Every dispenser of drugs shall keep a record of all sales of strychnia, arsenic and corrosive sublimate, said record to be open to proper legal inspection. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined five dolars for each and every offense. (Laws 1887, p. 82.)

Laws (Revised Code), 1893, p. 368.

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