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Credit: [Public Health Enactments,1914-25]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Published in the Government Gazette of 1st September, 1915, Notification No. 91. ENACTMENT No. 10 of 1915. An Enactment to regulate the possession and sale Poisons. IBRAHIM, Sultan. [iMi Aimgst, 1915.] Meaning of Poisons. Poisons. It is hereby enacted by His Highness the Sultan in Council Preamble, as follows:— 1. This Enactment maybe cited as The Poisons Enactment, Short title 1915/' and shall come into force on the ist day of October, 1915, ^^d com- mencement 2. (i) The several substances named or described in the next subsection and such other substances as may from time to time be declared by His Hi<.^hness the Sultan by notification in the Gazette, to be fit and proper to be classed as poisons and to be subject as regards possession and sale to the provisions of this Enactment shall be deemed to be poisons for the purposes of this and any other Enact- ment for the time being in force. (ii) The following substances are poisons :— (1) All preparations of antimony except antimony sulphide; (2) All preparation of mercury except cinnabar; (3) All vegetable alkaloids and preparations thereof except— {a) Those of the quinine and chinchonine group; {b) Caffein; (c) Theobromine; (4) All preparations of and all natural or manufactured products which contain any of the following, viz.:— Aconitine Helleborin Antiarine Hyoscyamine Atropine Physostigmine or Eserine Brucine Strophanthin Conine Strychnine Curarine Veratrine Digitalein](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21359519_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)