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

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.

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numbered and copied into a book, which copy shall bear the same number as the original recipe. Tiiis book must be kept for at least twenty years, and must always be exhibited on the retiuisition of the proper autliority. Apothecaries are forbidden to disi)atch any recipe containing ingre- dients which might cause accidents, unless there be clearly exjiressed in the recipe tlie mode of administering the remedy and the name of the i)erson for whom it is intended. In case it ai)pear that a dangerous remedy is prescribed in a dose greater than that given in Table B, and that the ])hysician has not rati- fied his wish to administer the remedy in the manner previously indi- cated, the ai)othecary is obliged by law to send to the physician a copy of the recipe for his written approbation, without which the recipe must not be dispatched. All remedies intended for external use must, besides the usual label, bear another printed on orange-colored paper with the following words in black ink, Uso externo. Poisons, particularly those intended for the destruction of animals, also mineral acids, nitrate of silver, cyanide of potassium, etc., can only be sold to persons known to the apothecary, and who, in every case, are required to sign a certificate in a book called Eegister of poisons, declaring that they have bought said articles and state the use to which they are to be applied. Articles named in Table C must be kept on separate shelves and under lock and key. The dean of the faculty is authorized to name commissions as often as he may deem it exi^edient to inspect apothecary stores. These com- missions shall be comj)osed of one physician or surgeon and of one or two pharmacists. Every apothecary shop should be visited and inspected at least once a year. For violating any of the provisions of the regulations governing apothecary shops, the owner renders himself liable to the penalties established by law, as given in the penal code. Failure to comply with the instructions of the visiting inspectors, after fifteen days, shall be reason sufficient for closing the establishment by the competent authority. The names of the articles mentioned in Tables A, B, and C are given in Spanish in the original decree. These I have translated into Latin for the convenience of those to whom the Spanish language is not familiar. J. W. Meeriam, Consul. Iquique, A^pril 16, 1898.

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