Drug legislation in the United States : Rev. to July 15, 1908 / by Lyman F. Kebler.

  • Kebler, Lyman F. (Lyman Frederic), 1863-
Date:
1909
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Credit: Drug legislation in the United States : Rev. to July 15, 1908 / by Lyman F. Kebler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ALASKA. The Federal food and drugs act applies to Alaska. No special pro- visions are made for enforcing the Oregon statute of 1864, extended over Alaska by Federal statute. Opium, etc., can be sold only on prescription. SALE OF POISONS. 163. Penalty for sale without a label. If any person shall sell or deliver any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or other poison, without having the word poison and the true name thereof in English written or printed upon a label attached to the vial, box, or parcel containing the same, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. {Approved October 19, 1864^ Laws of Oregon.) Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 34. 145. Sale of opium restricted. It shall be unlawful to sell or give away opium, or any preparation of which opium is the principal medicinal agent, to any person except druggists and practicing physicians, except on the prescription of a practicing physician, written in the English or Latin language; and the druggist filling the prescription shall keep the same on file for one year subject to be inspected by any public ofl^cer of the district. 149. Penalty. Any person violating any of the four sections last preceding shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than two years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or by fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Approved November 25, 1885, Laws of Oregon. Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 31. ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 158. Penalty. If any person shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine in such manner as to render the same injurious to health, or shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any adulterated drug or medicine, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner provided in section one hundred and fifty-six. [By imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor fnore than one year, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars], and such adulterated drugs or medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed. (Approved October 19, 1864, Laws of Oregon.) Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 33.
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