Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask.

Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DRUGS—SALE OF. NEW YORK, N. Y. HABIT-FORMING DRUGS—SALE OF. Sec. 182. No cocaine or salts of cocaine, eucain, alpha or beta eucain, either alone or in combination with other substances, or any substance under any other name giv- ing a similar chemical test of cocaine, and no opium or official preparations of opium, and no morphine or salts of morphine, or the derivatives of either or any of them, shall be sold at retail by any person in the city of New York except upon the written prescription of a physician, duly authorized to practice as such, or other person duly authorized by law to practice medicine and administer drugs or perform surgery with the use of instruments. Nothing hereinbefore mentioned, however, shall apply to compounded mixtures containing opium or morphine or their derivatives, the formulas for which are given in the latest dispensary or national formulary, in which said mixtures the maximum dose, as plainly stated on the label of the package, as dispensed does not contain in excess of one-half a grain of powdered opium or the equivalent of its alkaloids; or to preparations for external use only, in the form of liniments, lotions, ointments, or oleates. The last-mentioned preparations shall be labeled “For external use only” and marked “Poison.” [Amendment to sanitary code adopted July 18, 1911.]