CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 331
257.

This section applies to all statutes to prevent gambling, including those en-
acted after passage of this section. Gaither v. Gate, 156 Md. 254.

Health—Hours of Labor of Street Car Employees.

274-276. Repealed by ch. 561 of the Acts of 1927.

Health—Narcotic Drugs.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 283. 1912, sec. 251. 1904. sec. 237. 1904, ch. 607, secs. 1-3.
1906, ch. 523. 1912, ch 473. 1935, ch. 59, sec. 283.

283. The following words and phrases as used in this sub-title shall
have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Person" includes any corporation, association, co-partnership or
one or more individuals.

(b) "Physician" means any person authorized by law to practice medi-
cine in this State and any other person authorized by law to treat sick
and injured human beings in this State and to use narcotic drugs in
connection with such treatment.

(c) "Dentist" means any person authorized by law to practice den-
tistry in this State.

(d) "Veterinarian" means any person authorized by law to practice
veterinary medicine in this State.

(e) "Manufacturer's means a person who by compounding, mixing,
cultivating, growing or other process produces or prepares narcotic drugs,
but does not include a pharmacist who compounds narcotic drugs to be
sold or dispensed on prescription.

(f) "Wholesaler" means a person who supplies narcotic drugs that he
himself has not produced or prepared, on official written order, but not on
prescription.

(g) "Pharmacist" means a registered pharmacist and assistant regis-
tered pharmacists of this State.

(h) "Pharmacy Owner" means the owner of a store or other place of
business where narcotic drugs are compounded or dispensed by a registered
pharmacist; but nothing in this sub-title contained shall be construed as
conferring on a person who is not registered or licensed as a pharmacist
any authority, right or privilege that is not granted to him by the
pharmacy laws of this State.

(i) "Hospital" means an institution for the care and treatment of
the sick and injured, approved by the Department of Health of the State
of Maryland as proper to be entrusted with the custody of narcotic
drugs and the professional use of narcotic drugs under the direction of a
physician, dentist or veterinarian.

(j) "Laboratory" means a laboratory to be entrusted with the custody
of narcotic drugs and the use of narcotic drugs for scientific, experimental
and medical purposes and for purposes of instruction, approved by the
State Department of Health.