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ment which is in charge of and is under the supervision and actual management of a registered pharmacist. No person not registered as pharmamist or assistant pharmacist shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of any retail drug or chemical store or pharmaceutical department to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians except as an aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist, who shall be present in the said pharmacy or pharmaceutical department at the time.

Sec. 1761. "Permits" to registered pharmacists in certain cases. As Amended 1893-4, p. 719. Any person registered as a pharmacist by any reputable board of pharmacy or a graduate of any reputable college of pharmacy who shall during any interval between the meetings of the board of pharmacy of this state desire to perform the duties of such registered pharmacist in this state shall apply to the secretary of the said board for a permit so to do, and the secretary, on the presentation of satisfactory evidence that the said applicant is a licentiate of some reputable board of pharmacy or registered as pharmacist by such board or a graduate of some reputable college of pharmacy, shall issue to him a permit to perform said duties until the next meeting of the said board, at which time he shall present himself before said board for examination, and on his failure so to do he shall thereafter until such time as he shall pass a satisfactory examination before said board only be granted temporary permits to perform said duties in this state; the total period of said temporary permits to any one person between any two meetings of the said board shall not at any one time exceed thirty days in the aggregate. The applicant shall pay to the secretary a fee of one dollar for each permit issued.

Sec. 1761 a. Pharmacists claiming registration from practical ex- Extra Session 1887, p. 210. perience.-Pharmacists claiming the rights of registration under this act on account of practical experience shall on or before the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, show to the satisfaction of the board of pharmacy to be created by this act that they have had not less than three years' practical experience in the preparation of physicians' prescriptions and in compounding and rending medicines and poisons: provided, nothing in this section shall apply to any person or persons in business on their own account upon the passage of this act. Licentiates in pharmacy must have had not less than three years' experience previous to the passage of this act in stores where prescriptions of medical practitioners have been prepared or shall have passed an examination before the board of pharmacy of the state, and in all cases two years of experience shall be required. The board may register without further examination the licentiates of such other board of pharmacy as they may deem proper. Any pharmacists failing to comply with the requirements of sections six and eight (of act of March 3, 1886,) on or before June first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall forfeit his right to registration and shall appear before the board of pharmacy for examination as provided in this act.

Sec. 1762. Renewal of registration; fee.-Every registered pharmacist As Amended 1893-4, p. 719. and registered assistant pharmacist who desires to continue the practice of his profession shall annually on or before the first day of March pay to the secretary of the board of pharmacy a registration fee of one dollar, for which he shall receive a renewal of said certificate of registration, and every certificate of registration and every last renewal thereof shall at all times be conspicuously exposed in the prescription department of the drug or chemical store to which it applies or in which the said person, is employed or engaged.

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Sec. 1763. Vender of medicines and poisons to label same; requirement before delivery of poison to purchaser; entries in book.— It shall not be lawful for any person having authority to sell or dispense medicines or poisons to retail any poisons enumerated in the following schedules "A" and "B" without distinctly labelling the bottle. box, vessel or paper in which said poison is contained with the name of the article and the word "poison" and the name and place of business of the seller, and in addition thereto at least two of the most readily obtainable effective antidotes to such poisonous article.

SCHEDULE "A."

Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, biniodide of mercury, cyonide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine and its salts, and essen'tial oil of bitter almonds.

As Amended 1893-4, p. 720.

SCHEDULE "B."

Aconite, belladonna, nux vomica, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, digitalis, colchicum, conium, henbane, and their pharmaceutical preparations; creosote, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, white and red precipitate, morphine and its preparations, opium and its preparations except paregoric, and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce, and all other deadly poisons.

Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons mentioned in the said schedules “A” and “B” unless upon due inquiry it be found that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous nature and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose, nor to any person under sixteen years of age except upon the written order of some responsible adult

person.

Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell any poison mentioned in schedule "A" without before delivering the same to the purchaser causing an entry to be made in a book to be kept for that purpose, always open to the inspection of the proper officers of the law, stating the date of sale, name and address of purchaser, name and quantity of poison sold, purpose for which it is required as represented by the purchaser, and name of the dispenser.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poison in usual doses on prescriptions of physicians or veterinary surgeons put up by registered pharmacists or registered assistant pharmacists or dispensed by a physician or veterinary surgeon in his regular practice.

Sec. 1764. Liability of pharmacists for quality of their drugs, &c. No person shall within this state manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this section.

The term "drug" as used in this section shall include all medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, and cosmetics.

A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this section

(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 laid down therein; (2) if when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica it differs materially

from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work; (3) if its strength, quality, or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold.

Every person manufacturing, offering, or exposing for sale or delivering to a purchaser any drug included in the provisions of this section shall furnish to the state chemist or other officer of the law who shall apply to him for the purpose and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such drug which is in his possession, but the provisions of this section shall not apply to any retailer selling goods in original packages or drawn there from except the provision as to samples for analysis.

Sec. 1765. Merchants excepted in certain cases.-None of the As Amended 1893-4, p. 721. provisions of this chapter except those contained in sections seventeen hundred and sixty-three and seventeen hundred and sixty-four shall prevent the sale by merchants of quinine, epsom salts, castor oil, essence of peppermint and other flavoring preparations, calomel, camphor, iodide, bromide and chlorate of potassa, opium, paregoric, and sweet oil, and such other domestic and proprietary medicines as are usually kept by retail dealers; but the sale of laudanum, morphine, and proprietary medicines must be in original packages as obtained from druggists.

Sec. 1766. Penalties on venders of medicines.-Any person violating As Amended the provisions of section seventeen hundred and fifty-nine of this chapter 1893-4, p. 721. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day that the said provisions or any of them are violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offence.

Any registered assistant pharmacist who in violation of section seventeen hundred and sixty of this chapter shall manage, control, or have charge of any pharmacy or retail drug or chemical store or pharmaceutical department longer than six consecutive days at any one time or longer than thirty days in any one year in the aggregate shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day that he remains in management or charge of such pharmacy or drug or chemical store or pharmaceutical department in excess of the periods authorized by said section shall constitute a separate offence; and any registered pharmacist who violates any of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day's violation of the said provisions shall constitute a separate offence. Any person owning or managing a pharmacy, retail drug or chemical store, or pharmaceutical department who shall in violation of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty allow any person not registered as pharmacist or assistant pharmacist to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians except as an aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist, who shall be present in the said pharmacy or pharmaceutical department at the time, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offence.

Any registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist who in violation of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-two of this chapter fails to renew his certificate of registration and to expose the said certificate and last annual renewal thereof in accordance with the provisions of the said section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars, and each day he continues to carry on or be engaged in such business without such renewal and such exposure of said certificate and renewal shall constitute a separate offence.

Any person violating any of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-three shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offence.

Any person violating any of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-four, or who refuses to comply upon demand with the requirements thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con、 viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both; and any person found guilty of violating the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-four shall be adjudged to pay, in addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided for, all necessary cost and expense incurred in inspecting and analyzing such adulterated articles which said persons may have been found guilty of manufacturing, selling, or offering for sale; and in addition thereto, if he be a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist, his name shall be stricken from the register. In all prosecutions under this chapter the board of pharmacy of the state of Virginia shall be constituted the informer, and one-half the fines imposed by this section shall go to the said board of pharmacy and the other half to the commonwealth.

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CHAPTER LXXIX.

REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY.

Sec. 1767. Who may practice dentistry.-From and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of Amendments dentistry in the commonwealth of Virginia or to assist in the practice of 1889-90, p. 24. 1893-4, p. 593. dentistry for compensation as either assistant or employee or to receive license from any commissioner of the revenue unless such person shall have obtained a certificate from the board of examiners as provided in section one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine of this chapter: provided. that persons who held license to practice dentistry in this commonwealth on the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, and have complied with the requirements of section one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, shall be otherwise exempt from the provisions of this section: and provided, further, that nothing contained in this section shall prevent any authorized physician or surgeon from extracting teeth or any other person from extracting teeth for any one suffering from toothache. Sec. 1769. Their duties.—It shall be the duty of this board

As Amended 1893-4, p. 593.

First. MEETINGS.-To meet annually at the time and place of meeting of the Virginia state dental association, or at such other time and place as the board shall agree upon, to conduct the examination of applicants. They shall also meet for the same purpose at the call of any four members of the board at such time and place as may be designated by said members. Thirty days' notice of the meetings shall be given by advertising in at least two of the daily papers published in the state.

Second. EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS, &c.-To grant a certificate of ability to practice dentistry to all applicants who undergo a satisfactory examination and receive at least four affirmative votes, which certificate

shall be signed by the members of the board and be stamped with a suitable seal (which they may adopt).

Third. REGISTRY.-To keep a book in which shall be registered the name and qualification (as far as practicable) of every person to whom such certificate is granted.

Fourth. TEMPORARY CERTIFICATES.-Any member of the board designated by the president thereof may, upon presentation by any applicant of the evidence of the necessary qualifications to practice dentistry under this chapter, grant a temporary license to practice until the next meeting of the board and no longer: provided, that no such temporary license shall be granted to any person who has been rejected on an examination by the board. All such temporary licenses shall be signed by the secretary of the board.

Sec. 1772. Penalties.-Any person who shall in violation of this chapter As Amended practice dentistry in this state shall on conviction thereof be fined not less 1893-4, p. 594. than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, and shall not be entitled to any fee for services rendered; and if a fee shall have been paid the patient may recover back the same. On the trial of any person charged with violation of any of the provisions of this chapter it shall be incumbent on the defendant to show that he has authority under the law to practice dentistry in this state in order to relieve himself from the penalties herein prescribed. Any commissioner of the revenue who shall in violation of section seventeen hundred and sixty-seven issue a license to any person not authorized to practice dentistry by this chapter shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and no license issued by any commissioner in violation of this chapter shall be valid.

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Sec. 1774. Dentists required to register.-Every person practicing As Amended dentistry in the commonwealth of Virginia at the time of the passage of 1893-4, p. 594. this act shall register his name and post-office address, together with the Amendment 1889-90, p. 25. name of the college from which he is a graduate or the length of time he has been practicing in this commonwealth, with the board of examiners before renewing his license, and it shall be the duty of the board to issue to each person so registered a certificate of registration stamped with the seal of the board, but no fee shall be collected from persons so registering. Every person holding a certificate of qualification or registration from the board of examiners at the time of the passage of this act shall within sixty days therefrom hare his certificate recorded in the clerk's office of the county or corporation court of every county or city in which he proposes to practice, and if in the city of Richmond in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of said city. And every person who shall after the passage of said act obtain such certificate from the board shall have said certificate recorded in the same manner within sixty days after receiving the same and before receiving a license from any commissioner of the The certificate shall be recorded in a book to be kept for the purpose and properly indexed. The clerk's fee for recording such a certificate shall be fifty cents.

revenue.

CHAPTER LXXX.

REGULATING THE PROCURING AND DISTRIBUTION OF DEAD BODIES FOR THE

PROMOTION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

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