The regulation and control of the manufacture and sale of food and drugs for infants / by Eric Pritchard.

  • Pritchard, Eric, 1864-1943.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The regulation and control of the manufacture and sale of food and drugs for infants / by Eric Pritchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Poisons within the Meaning of the Pharmacy Act, 1868. Part I. Not to be sold unless the pur- chaser is known to, or is intro- duced by some person known to the seller ; also entry to be made in poison-book of— 1. Date of sale. 2. Name and address of pur- chaser. 3. Name and quantity of article. 4. Purpose for which it is wanted. Attested by signature, and must be labelled with 1. Name of article. 2. The word “ Poison.” 3. Name and address of seller. Arsenic, and its preparations. (For special regulations see page 61.) Aconite, and its preparations. Alkaloids.—All poisonous vege- table alkaloids and their salts. Atropine, preparations of. Cantharides. Cocaine, and its salts. Corrosive Sublimate. Cyanides of Potassium, and all metallic cyanides and the pre- paration of such articles. Emetic Tartar. Ergot of Rye, and its prepara- tions. Piero toxin. Prussic Acid, and its prepara- tions. j Savin, and its oil. I Strychnine, and its preparations. Part II. also contains a number of potent poisons, the sale of which is confined to chemists and druggists, but, provide that the packages containing such sub- stances are labelled with the word “ Poison” and the name and address of the seller, they may be sold to any one without further restriction. It follows that these Schedules are utterly inadequate to meet the requirements of the case, especially in regard to the sale of poisons administered to infants. Acetanilide, for instance, is certainly a poison which should be added to the number of those already scheduled, and veronal is another which might be added with advantage. But the inefficacy of a Poison Schedule of this kind to meet the requirements of the case is quite apparent when we remember the resource- fulness of the synthetic drug manufacturer, for as soon as one drug is added to the list we may be perfectly certain that new ones equally dangerous will be sub-