HEALTH 1873

Poison Law.

1935, ch. 62, sec. 241A.

263. The word poison, within the meaning of this sub-title, shall
include:

Arsenic, metallic or elemental, and all compounds and preparations
thereof; corrosive sublimate; white precipitate; red precipitate; biniodide
of mercury; nitrate of mercury; hydrocyanic acid and all its salts and
compounds; aconitine, arecoline, atropine, brucine, colchicine, coniine,
daturine, delphinine, gelsemine, gelseminine, homatropine, hyoscine,
hyoscyamine, lobeline, pelletierine, physostigmine, pilocarpine, sparteine,
strychnine, veratrine, and all other poisonous alkaloids and their salts,
compounds, and preparations; volatile or essential oil of bitter almonds,
natural and artificial; aconite, belladonna, calabar bean, cantharides,
colchicum, conium, cotton root, cocculus indicus, datura, digitalis, ergot,
gelsemium, henbane, ignatia, larkspur, lobelia, nux vomica, savin, acopola,
solanum, stramonium, staphisagra, strophanthus, veratrum viride, and
their pharmaceutical preparations and compounds; cantharidin, picrotoxin,
elaterin, santonin, their chemical compounds and derivatives and prepara-
tions; ascaridol; volatile oil of mustard, natural and synthetic; oil of
tansy; oil of pennyroyal; oil of savin; glacial acetic acid; trichloracetic
acid; aniline oil; benzaldehyde; bromoform; carbolic acid; carbon disul-
phide; cresylic acid; chloral hydrate; chromic acid; cresol; cresote;
croton oil; chloroform; dinitro phenol; ether; formaldehyde; mineral
acids; oxalic acid; nitro benzene; phosphorus; paraldehyde; picric acid;
salts of antimony; salts of barium, except the sulphate: salts of cobalt;
salts of chromium; salts of lead; salts of thallium; salts of zinc; and
silver nitrate.

1935, ch. 62, sec. 241B.

264. It shall be unlawful for any person to vend, sell, dispense, give
away, furnish, or otherwise dispose of, or cause to be vended, sold, dis-
pensed, given away, furnished, or otherwise disposed of, either directly or
indirectly, any poison, without affixing, or causing to be affixed, to the
bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, a label, printed or
plainly written, containing the name of the article, the word "Poison,"
and the name and place of business of the seller and the date of sale; nor
shall it be lawful for any person to deliver any of said poisons until he
has satisfied himself that the person to whom the same is delivered is
aware of and understands the poisonous nature of the article and that such
poison is to be used for a legitimate purpose.

1935, ch. 62, sec. 241C.

265. Every person who disposes of or sells at retail or furnishes any
of the poisons in this sub-title specifically enumerated, or any other poisons
which the Maryland Board of Pharmacy may from time to time designate,
as provided in Section 266 of this sub-title, shall, before delivering the
same, enter in a book kept for that purpose (to be known as the "Poison
Register"), the date of sale, the name and address of purchaser, the name
and quantity of the poison, the purpose for which it is purchased and
the name of the dispenser, and such record shall be signed by the person
to whom the poison is delivered. Such record shall be kept in the form
prescribed by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy and the book containing