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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Art. 12. The rights for the exercise of the profession and for the license of a phar- macist are regulated by the following rate: $30 (Paraguayan paper), which has to be ])aid at the presentation of the diploma, will go to form a part of the income of the Treasury. Art. 14. The pharmacists are responsible for the good qualities of the medicines which they sell, and for the prompt and exact filling' of all prescriptions. Art. 15. All pharmacists must keep a folio book (ajiproved by the secretary of the medical council), in which they will copy conscientiously all the prescriptions of the authorized physicians, in the order of their numbers. No prescription which con tains poisonous substance or active poisons can be refilled without the approval of the doctor. Art. 16. Every pharmacist must have a list of authorized physicians, approved by the council. AuT. 17. Pharmacists are obliged to personally direct their establishments and to oversee the filling of prescriptions. In the absence of the pharmacist he will be obliged to leave an agent in charge of the pharmacy, whose name will be inscribed in the respective register of the council. Art. 18. All pharmacists will transcribe conscientiously in a receipt book all the prescriptions of the physicians filled. Art. 19. All pharmacists are prohibited from performing cures by means of active or energetic remedies, and are only permitted to advise upon and till simple reuiedies of inoffensive composition. In case of urgencj^ or disaster they may bestow such help as they judge proper until a physician can be secured. Art. 20. A person who invents or compounds in the country, or who imports from I foreign country, a new remedy Avliose composition is unknown, and desiring to dispose of it to the public, will communicate the same to the council, presenting at '.he same time some specimens of said remedy. The medical council will analyze it :it the expense of the presenter, and upon the result of the analysis showing that said remedy does not contain any element that would prove dangerous or noxious to health, the presenter will be given a license for the sale of said remedy. The analysis having been made as has been said, the findings of council whether to permit or prohibit will be published. Art. 21. Pharmacies will be inspected once every six months by a commission made up from the council. The inspection made, the commission will approve with their signatures the books wherein the prescriptions are filed. Art. 22. The office of practical pharmacy of Dorvault will be accepted by the medical council for the conformity and uniformity in the dispatch of the pharma- ceutical work. The ])harmacists will be obliged to make all their simple and compound prepara- tions according to that prescribed by the office of Dorvault. They will be obliged to fill prescriptions at any hour of the night. The law provides a peualty of $5 as the minimum and $50 as the maximum for the violation of the above laws. The above tines are in tlie money of Paraguay. This law was passed in 1883. John N. Euffin, Consul. Asuncion, Ajjril 8, 1898. URUGUAY. 1. THE DRUG BUSINESS. The drug business is open in Uruguay, as to number, and the only regulation of governmental character is that the prescription clerk

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