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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Exemption from Peryiltii ii.—iio person shall be convicted if he shall show to the satisfaction of the Justices that he did not know the drug or article in question to have been thus mixed ; or if he shall show that at the time of selling such drug or article he distinctly apprised the purchaser that it was mixed ; or shall show that the added ingi'odient or material (not being injurious to health) was added not for any fraudulent purpose, but solely for the production or necessary preparation of the drug or article as an article of commerce, or was unavoidably mixed with it in the process of pre- paration ; or that such drug or article was a patented or proprietaiy medicine, and sold as such. Expense of Antthjsinf/ Articles.—Where the prosecutor in any case under this Act shall have caused the drug, liquor, or article, forming the subject of pro.sccution to be analysed by any competent analyst, the reasonable expense of and attending such analysis to be assessed by the justices) may, in case of a conviction, be awarded against the defendant as part of the costs of the pi'osccution ; provided that before the making of such analysis the person prosecuted shall have had reasonable notice of the time and place of the intended production of the drug, liquor, or article to the analyst for examination, with the name of such analyst, and shall have been allowed to attend on such production. SALE AND USE OF POISONS ACT (1876). (40 Vic., No. 9.) Berjidations for the Sale, of Poisons.—Every person who shall sell any of the following ])oisons, viz.Part L, Arsenic, Prussic Acid, Strychnine, Savin and its Oil, Ergot of Hye and its preparations. Chloral Hydrate, and Laudanum. Part IL, Cyanides of Potassium and all metallic Cyanides, all poisonous vegetable Alkaloids and their Salts, Aconite and its preparations, Tartar Emetic, Con’osive Sublimate, Cantharides, Oxalic Acid, Chloroform, Belladonna and its preparations. Opium and all preparations of Opium or of l’op])ies other than Laudanum, Asenical preparations except Green and other coloured I’aints shall, before delivery thereof to the j)urchaser, inquire his name, place of abode, and occupation, and the pui'pose for which such poison is reipiircd, and shall thereupon make an entry of such sale, specifying the poison and the quantity thereof, and all such particulars so given by the j)urchaser together with the date in a book to be kept by the vendor for that purpose, and every such entiy shall be signed by the person making the same, and also by the purchaser, unle.ss he shall declare himself unable to write (in which case the person making the entry shall add thereto the woids “ Purchaser cannot write ”) and whenever a witness to the .sale is required by this Act, such entry shall be signed by such witness, together with his place of abode. In cases where sales and purchases of poisons are made by correspondence, the letter oixlering the same shall be preserved by the vendor, and a memorandum of the date of the said letter, by whom it was written, and the quantity and particulars of the poison therein ordered shall be entered in the said book, and no person shall sell poison so oixlered to any person wrth whose signature he is not ac<iuaintcd unless such signature shall have been witnessed by a Justice, clergyman, or public officer, or be authenticated by some person knowm to the vendor. And no person shall sell any of these poisons to any person under eighteen years of age, or who is unknown to the vendor, unless the sale be made in the presence of some witness who is known to the vendor, and to whom the purchaser is known, and w'hich wdtness signs his name together with his place of abode to the required entry before the dclivciy of the poison to the ])urchasc7’. And it shall not be lawful to buy or sell .any pf)ison for the i)urpose of destroying rats or other vermin infesting houses, unless the purchaser be a hou.scholder. Every bottle or other vessel, w'rapper, cover, box, or case immediately containing the imison sold, cither by wholesale or retail, must bear thereon the word “Poison” juanted co!is|)icuously, together with the name of the article and the name and address of the seller thereof. Arsenic anil Stryclmine must he coloured.—No person shall sell any arsenic or sti-ychnine or any preparation of the same, unle.ss in the case of arsenic and any uncolourcd preparation of the same, such poison shall be mixed before dclivciy thereof with soot or indigo in the proportion of one ounce of soot or half an ounce of indigo at the least, to one pound of arsenic, and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity. And in the case of stiychninc or any uncolourcd preparation of the same, such poison shall be covered wdth Armenian bole or other red colouring matter](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034272_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
