Chap. 772.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1759 of the code of Vir-
ginia in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March 2, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 1759 of the code of Virginia in relation to the practice of pharmacy,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1894.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and fifty-nine of the code of Virginia in relation
to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section seventeen hundred and fifty-nine of
the code of Virginia in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1759. Qualifications of members, and so forth—It shall not be
lawful for any person not a registered pharmacist to open or control as
proprietor any retail drug or chemical store, or pharmaceutical depart-
ment thereof, in this state, unless he shall have in his employ and
place in charge of such store or pharmacy, or in the pharmaceutical
department thereof, a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this
chapter, who shall have the supervision and the management of that
part of the business requiring pharmaceutical skill and knowledge. And
it shall not be lawful for anv person to engage in the business or occu-
pation of compounding or aispensing medicines on prescriptions of
physicians or otherwise, or of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals,
poisons or pharmaceutical preparations, within this state, without first
obtaining a certificate of registry, as provided in this chapter: provided,
nothing in this section shall apply to or in any manner interfere with
the recular practice of any physician or veterinary surgeon, or prevent
him from supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem proper,
unless such physician or veterinary surgeons keep open shop for the dis-
pensing of such articles, or with the making or vending of patent or
proprietary medicines by any retail dealer in the original packages, or
with the manufacture or the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer:
and provided further, that nothing in this act shall prevent or interfere
with any retail druggist or drug company or their employees from selling,
compounding, dispensing, or manufacturing in the regular course of
business any patent or proprietary medicines, or such other phar-
maceutical preparations, chemicals, drugs, or articles as are patent or
proprietary: and provided further, that in rural districts and in towns
having a population of fifteen hundred or less, any physician recognized
by the medical society of Virginia, who has had five years’ experience as
a practicing physician, may act as a pharmacist, without examination,
but subject to such registration and renewal as is provided for in this
act.