keep a record of the name and quantity of the article sold and of the name and residence of the person or persons to whom it was delivered, which shall be made before the article is delivered and shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers of the district police and by the police authorities and officers of cities and towns; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except upon the prescription of a physician.

Whoever neglects to affix such label to such bottle, box or wrapper before delivery thereof to the purchaser or whoever neglects to keep or refuses to show to said officers such records or whoever purchases any of said poisons and gives a false or fictitious name to the vendor shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales by wholesale dealers or manufacturing chemists to retail dealers, or to a general merchant who sells Paris green, London purple or other arsenical poisons in unbroken packages containing not less than one-quarter of a pound, for the sole purpose of destroying potato bugs or other insects upon plants, vines or trees, except that he shall record each sale and label each package sold, as above provided.

Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 2, p. 1802.

1. Wood alcohol must be labeled as a poison. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges or delivers any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall affix to the vessel containing the same and shall deliver therewith a label bearing the words "Wood Alcohol, Poison ", in black letters of uncondensed Gothic type not less than one fourth of an inch in height. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars.

2. Wood alcohol prohibited in drugs for internal use. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges or delivers, or has in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any article of food or drink, or any drug intended for internal use, containing any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Acts 1905, p. 149.

PATENT MEDICINES AND COCAINE.

1. Per cent of alcohol when excessive must be specified. Upon every package, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine, or any proprietary or patent food preparation, which contains alcohol to an amount in excess of the amount shown to be necessary by the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary as a solvent or preservative of the active constituents of the drugs contained therein, shall be marked or inscribed a statement of the percentage of alcohol by volume contained therein; and the provisions of section nineteen of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws shall apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or inscribed.

2. Labeling of proprietaries containing habit-forming drugs. Every package, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine or any proprietary or patent food preparation shall bear a label containing a statement of the quantity of any opium, morphine, heroin or chloral-hydrate contained therein, provided that the package contains more than two grains of

opium, or more than one fourth grain of morphine, or more than one sixteenth grain of heroin, or more that eight grains of chloral-hydrate in one fluid ounce, or, if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce; and the provisions of section nineteen of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws shall apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or inscribed.

3. Sale of proprietary medicines containing cocaine or substitutes prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to expose or offer for sale, or to give or exchange, any patent or proprietary medicine or article containing cocaine or any of its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine or any synthetic substitute of the aforesaid.

4. Dispensing of cocaine or its substitutes restricted to prescriptions. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to expose or offer for sale, or to give or exchange any cocaine or alpha or beta eucaine or any synthetic substitute of the aforesaid, or any preparation containing the same, or any salts or compounds thereof, except upon the written prescription of a physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon registered under the laws of the Commonwealth; the original of which prescription shall be retained by the druggist filling the same and shall not again be filled.

5. Wholesaling exempt. The provisions of sections three and four shall not apply to sales at wholesale made to retail druggists or dental depots nor to sales made to physicians, dentists or regularly incorporated hospitals.

6. Penalty. Whoever manufactures, sells or offers for sale any medicine or food preparation in violation of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. It shall be the duty of the state board of health to cause the prosecution of all persons violating the provisions of this act; but no prosecution shall be brought for the sale at retail, or for the gift or exchange of any patent or proprietary medicine or food preparation containing any drug or preparation the sale of which is prohibited or restricted as aforesaid, unless the said board has, prior to such sale, gift or exchange, given public notice in such trade journals or newspapers as it may select that the gift, exchange or sale at retail of the said medicine or food preparation would be contrary to law.

7. This act shall take effect on the first day of September in the year nineteen hundred and six. Approved May 11, 1906. Statutes, Chapter 386.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

16. Prohibition; employee not liable. No person shall manufacture, offer for sale or sell, within this Commonwealth, any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of section eighteen; but no employee, other than a manager or superintendent, shall be punished for a violation of this section unless such violation was intentional on the part of the said employee. (As amended, Acts, 1903, p. 337.)

17. Definition of “drug”. The term “drug" as used in sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, shall include all medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, disinfectants and cosmetics.

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18. Adulteration defined. A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated: 1. If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity prescribed therein, unless the order therefor requires an article inferior to such standard or unless such difference is made known or so appears to the purchaser at the time of the sale. 2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia but which is found in some other pharmacopœia or other standard

work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity prescribed in such work. 3. If its strength, quality or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold.

20. Samples for analysis to be furnished on demand. Whoever offers o exposes for sale or delivers to a purchaser any drug or article of food shall, upon application of an inspector, analyst or other officer or agent of the state board of health and upon tender to him of the value thereof, furnish a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his possession. Laws 1882, p. 206 et seq.

21. Portion of sample to be reserved. Before such sample is analyzed, a portion thereof shall be reserved and sealed by the analyst; and, upon a complaint against any person, such reserved portion shall, upon application, be delivered to the defendant or his attorney. Laws 1884, p. 269.

26. Penalty. Whoever, for the purpose of sale, fraudulently adulterates any drug or medicine, or sells any fraudulently adulterated drug or medicine, knowing it to be adulterated, shall be punished by a fine of not more than four hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year; and such adulterated drugs and medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed under the direction of the court.

27. Provision as to changes in standard. If the standard of strength or purity of any drug has been raised since the issue of the last edition of the United States pharmacopoeia, no prosecution relative to it shall be maintained until such change of standard has been published throughout the commonwealth. Laws 1884, p. 268.

Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 659–662.

4. Powers and duties of State board of health. Said board shall take cognizance of the interests of health and life among the citizens of the commonwealth, make sanitary investigations and inquiries relative to the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health, and relative to the sale of drugs and food and the adulterations thereof; and shall gather such information relative thereto as it considers proper for diffusion among the people. * * *

5. Appointment of inspectors and chemists; penalty for hindering inspector. In the performance of its duties relative to the sale of drugs and food it may appoint inspectors, analysts and chemists, and may remove them. Such inspectors shall have the same power and authority relative to drugs and food as is given by sections forty-two and fifty-two of chapter fifty-six, relative to milk, to the inspectors named therein. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with any such inspector, analyst or other officer appointed under the provisions of this section, while in the performance of his official duty, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and of not more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.

Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 657-658.

ADULTERATION OF MEDICINAL LIQUORS.

[The following special provision is made relative to the quality of liquors sold by druggists for medicinal purposes under sixth class liquor licenses :]

17. Medicinal liquors must be free from adulteration. "Third, That spirituous or intoxicating liquor shall not be sold, exchanged or delivered, or exposed, offered or kept for sale, exchange or delivery, upon the licensed premises, unless

it is of good standard quality and is free from any adulteration prohibited in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States or by the laws relative to the adulteration of drugs and food, for either a food or a drug. If it is marked, labelled or represented as being the product of any foreign country, it shall also be of the standard quality required for its legal sale for domestic use in the country of its reputed production. All such liquors which are sold, exchanged or delivered, or which are exposed or kept for sale, exchange or delivery, under a license of the sixth class, shall be of the quality required for their sale as drugs under the provisions of the laws relative to the adulteration of drugs and food." (Laws 1896, p. 217.)

Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 840.

1. Adulteration of liquor with drugs, penalty. Whoever, for the purpose of sale, adulterates any liquor used or intended for drink with Indian cockle, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, cochineal, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazil wood, sugar of lead or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health, and whoever knowingly sells any such liquor so adulterated shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years, and the articles so adulterated shall be forfeited. (Laws 1855, p. 754.)

Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 2, p. 1802.

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MICHIGAN.

The drug laws are enforced by the State board of pharmacy, who may employ an inspector and chemist to assist in the work. is made to enforce the law.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

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14. Conduct of drug store, etc.; can supervise only one store. It shall be unlawful for any one but a registered pharmacist under this act, who shall conform to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Pharmacy to take, use and exhibit the titles “pharmacist,” “druggist,” and pharmacy" and drug store," to have charge of, engage in or carry on for himself or for another, the dispensing, compounding, or sale of drugs, medicines or poisons, anywhere within the State, but no registered pharmacist shall have personal supervision of more than one pharmacy or drug store at the same time.

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15. Who may conduct pharmacy. Except as prescribed by the provisions of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person to practice as a registered pharmacist, registered druggist, or advertise himself by sign or otherwise to be such, or to engage in, conduct, carry on, or be employed in the dispensing, compounding or retailing of drugs, medicines or poisons within this State; Provided, This section and the preceding section shall not be construed as precluding any person from owning a drug store or pharmacy if all of the pharmaceutical work in the same shall be under the personal supervision and direction of a registered pharmacist.

Public Acts, 1905, p. 522–523.

SALE OF POISONS.

23. Labeling by retailers; schedules. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons licensed under the provisions of this act to sell at retail or furnish any of the poisons named in the schedules hereinafter set forth without affixing or causing to be affixed to the bottle, box, vessel or package a label containing the name of the article and the word poison distinctly shown, together with the name and place of business of the seller all printed in red ink, and the name of such poison printed or written thereupon in plain legible characters, except when sold in the original package of the manufacturer, which conform to the requirements for the wholesale dealers, as hereinafter set forth. The following are the schedules.

SCHEDULE "A."

Arsenic, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, and all poisonous alkaloids and their salts, oil of bitter almonds containing hydrocyanic acid, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and such others as contain less than two grains of opium to the ounce.