1826 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 739

tered, (2) the owner or the agent of the owner of the animal
for which a barbiturate is prescribed or to which a barbiturate
is administered.

(d) The term "person" includes individual, corporation,
partnership and association.

(e) The term "practitioner" means a person licensed by
law to prescribe and administer barbiturates.

(f) The term "pharmacist" means a person duly registered
with the State Board of Pharmacy as a compounder, dispenser,
and supplier of drugs upon prescription.

(g) The term "prescription" means a written order by a
practitioner to a pharmacist for a barbiturate for a particular
patient, which (1) specifies the date of its issue, the name and
address of the practitioner, the name and address of the
patient (and, if such barbiturate is prescribed for an animal,
the species of the animal), the name and quantity of the
barbiturate prescribed, the directions for the use of such
drug, and the signature of such practitioner.

(h) The term "manufacturer" means persons other than
pharmacists who manufacture barbiturates, and including per-
sons who prepare such drugs in dosage forms by mixing, com-
pounding, encapsulating, entableting or other process.

(i) The term "wholesaler" means persons engaged in the
business of distributing barbiturates to persons included in
any of the classes named in Section 275(c).

(j) The term "warehousemen" means persons who store
barbiturates for others and who have no control over the
disposition of such barbiturates except for the purpose of
such storage.

274. (Prohibited Acts.) The following acts, the failure to
act as hereinafter set forth, and the causing of any such act
or failure are hereby declared unlawful:

(a) The delivery of any barbiturate, except as provided in
Section 275(c), unless:

(1) Such barbiturate is delivered by a pharmacist, upon an
original prescription, and therefore is affixed to the immediate
container in which such drug is delivered a label bearing (A)
the name and address of the owner of the establishment from
which such drug was delivered; (B) the date on which the
prescription for such drug was filled; (C) the number of such
prescription as filed in the prescription files of the pharmacist