674 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 473 J

the above enumerated drugs or mixtures thereof, except by a
licensed physician, dentist, practitioner of veterinary medicine
or surgery, manufacturing chemist or pharmacist, wholesale or
retail pharmacist or druggist or on the prescription of a licensed
physician dentist or veterinarian in good standing in his pro-
fession not of intemperate habits and not addicted to the use
of any drug, shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to sell,
give away or otherwise dispose of the same. Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to any
hospital, college or scientific or public institution.

237B. It shall be unlawful for any practitioner of medi-
cine or dentistry to furnish or prescribe for the use of any per-
son any cocaine, hereoine, alpha or beta ocaine, opium, mor-
phine, chloral hydrate or any salts or compounds of any of the
foregoing substances or any preparation containing any of the
foregoing substances or their salts or compounds except to such
persons who are under his care and for whom he, in good faith,
prescribed as necessary for their professional treatment; and
no practitioner of veterinary medicine or surgery shall prescribe
the same for the use of any human being. Any written order
or prescription given or made by any practitioner of medicine,
dentistry or veterinary medicine or surgery in the course of his
professional treatment shall be dated and shall contain the
name of the person for whom prescribed, or if ordered by a
practitioner of veterinary medicine or surgery shall state the
kind of animal for which ordered and said prescription shall
be signed by the person giving the prescription or order. Such
written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on
file by the person, firm or corporation who shall compound or
dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be
again compounded or dispensed except upon the written order
of the original prescriber for each and every subsequent com
pounding or dispensing. No copy or duplicate of such written
order or prescription shall be made or delivered to any person,
but the original shall at all times be open to inspection by the
prescriber, the State's Attorney for the county or Baltimore
City or committee of the Grand Jury of the county or of Balti-
more City in which said prescription was filled. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, and may, in the discretion of the Court, be confined in the
county or city jail in addition to the said fine for a period of
not exceeding one year.