Chap. 175.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1764 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, relating to the practice of phar-

macy
Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and: sixtv-four of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, re-
lating to the practice of pharmacy be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows: :

§ 1764. Vendor of medicines and poisons to label same; require-
ment before delivery of same to purchaser; entries in book.—It shall
not be lawful for any person, having authority to sell or dispense medi-
cines or poisons, to retail, except upon prescription of a regularly licensed
physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon, morphine and its preparations,
opium and its preparations, containing a higher percentum of opium
than laudanum prepared in accordance with formula provided by the
pharmacopceia of the United: States of America; and the filling
said prescription shall take and file and not refill the same, nor shall
such person or persons retail any poison enumerated in the following
schedules “A” and “B” without distinctly labelling the bottle, box,
vessel, or paper in which said poison is contained with the name of the
article and the word “Poison” and the name and place of business of
the seller; and, in addition thereto, at least two of the most readily ob-
tainable effective antidotes to such poisonous article.

SCHEDULE “A.”

Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, biniodide of mer-
cury, cyanide of potassium, hydron-cynic acid, strychnine and its salts,
and essential oil of bitter almonds.

SCHEDULE “B.”

Aconite, belladonna, nux vomica, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides,
digitalis, colchicum, conium, henbane, and their pharmaceutical pre-
parations ; creosote, croton oil, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, white and red
precipitate, and all other deadly poisons.

Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons
mentioned in the said schedules “A” and “B,” unless it be found, upon
due inquiry, that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous nature and
represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose, nor to any
person under sixteen years of age, except upon the written order of some
responsible adult

Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell any poison mentioned in
schedule “A” without, before delivering the same to the purchaser,
causing an entry to be made in a book, to be kept for that purpose, al-
ways open to the inspection of the proper officers of the law, stating the
date of sale, name and address of purchaser, name and quantity of poison
sold, purpose for which it is required, as represented by the purchases,
and name of the dispenser.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of
poisons in usual doses on prescriptions of physicians or veterinary sur-
geons put up by registered pharmacists, or registered assistant phar-
macists, or dispensed by a physician or veterinary surgeon in his regular
practice: provided, further, that no cocaine shall be sold in this State
by any person other than a regular druggist or pharmacist. No drug-
gist or pharmacist shall sell or furnish cocaine to any person other than
a licensed rhvsician, surgeon, dentist, druggist or pharmacist. Anv
such druggist violating this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five
nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. Be it enacted
further, that any verson furnishing or causing to be furnished morphia
or any ‘other drug to a person who is an habitue and under treatment
or havine been under treatment for same shall be subiect to the penalty
imposed by this act.

This is an emergency act under the Constitution of Virginia, and
shall be in force from its passage.

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