The drug trade in foreign countries : vol. XIV : reports from the consuls of the United States upon the laws and regulations governing : 1. the drug business : 2. druggists v. pharmacists : 3. exports of drugs and chemicals : 4. imports of drugs and medicines : 5. sale of drugs and medicines in lay stores : 6. disposal of prescriptions : 7. renewal of prescriptions : 8. practice of pharmacy / issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State.
- United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The drug trade in foreign countries : vol. XIV : reports from the consuls of the United States upon the laws and regulations governing : 1. the drug business : 2. druggists v. pharmacists : 3. exports of drugs and chemicals : 4. imports of drugs and medicines : 5. sale of drugs and medicines in lay stores : 6. disposal of prescriptions : 7. renewal of prescriptions : 8. practice of pharmacy / issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State. 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.
![3. To ;ipi)r(>\(' tlio coiitrac-ts iniule between ])riii(;i]»iilK and tlicir apprentices. 4. To settle all disiuiles between i)iinci])al.s and tlieir assistants and apprentices, and to examine (;aref'ully at all times the jjrievances of the latter. 5. To occasionally inspect those shops whose owners are j)revented by sickness from g^iving them sufficient i)ersonal attention, to aid their assistants, or to a])point temi)()i-arily, witli the consent of the owners oi- managers (J*rovisors) for such shops, if they 11 nd the assistants not entirely equal to their task and responsibility. 6. To exhort and reprove those princi])als or managers who neglect their business to the detriment of the public, and, if necessary, to take steps to bring about their removal. 7. To assist with their counsel the widows of deceased ])harmacists, and especially to see that competent managers are selected by them. 8. To act as a medium of communication between the provincial gov- ernment and the individual members of the association. Pharmacy regulations.—The following extract from the laws and min- isterial decrees governing pharmacists may be of interest: 1. The provincial pharmacopoeia determines what drugs must he kept in a phar- macy. 2. In preparing and componnding medicines, as well as in making his charges, the pharmacist must he guided hy the pharmacopoeia. 3. Utensils, receptacles, storerooms, etc., must he such as will not cause any vitiation or deterioration of the drugs. 4. The pharmacist must always observe the greatest order, cleanliness, and accuracy. 5. Drawers must have no subdivisions. 6. All labels must be plain and conspicuous. 7. All poisons and poisonous medicines (with separate utensils) must he kept in a special place under lock and key. 8. Drugs that have become old must be destroyed. 9. Those in need of medicines must be served at any time, day or night, with politeness, integrity, and dispatch. 10. No remedies, except those specially exempted in the pharmacopoeia, must be sold to anyone without a prescription, and pharmacists are, under no circumstances, permitted to recommend cures. Persons calling for abortive or poisonous drugs must be secretly reported to the authorities. 11. Only prescriptions signed by known and qualified physicians and surgeons should be filled. 12. A jjharmacist is not permitted to pass comment upon any prescription or upon the physician who gave it. 13. Secret compacts between pharmacists and physicians are prohibited by law as detrimental to the interests of their patrons or patients. 14. In filling a prescription a pharmacist is not allowed to deviate in the least from the physician's directions. 15. Apprentices must not be permitted to fill prescriptions. 16. Licensed physicians are at liberty at all times to test the quality and efficacy of any drug kept in a public pharmacy. 17. The proprietor or manager of a pharmacy is resijonsible for the acts of his assistants and apprentices.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070313_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
