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106 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 62
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nine (9) new
Sections be, and the same are hereby, added to Article 43
of Bagby's Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of
Maryland, Edition of 1924, title "Health, " to bear the
sub-title "Poison Law, " to follow immediately after Section
241, and to be known as Sections 241 (a), 241 (b), 241 (c),
241(d), 241(e), 241(f), 241(g), 241(h) and 241(i),
respectively, said new Sections to read as follows:
241 (a). 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 precipi-
tate; red precipitate; biniodide of mercury; nitrate of
mercury; hydrocyanic acid and all its salts and com-
pounds; aconitine, arecoline, atropine, brucine, colchicine,
coniine, daturine, delphinine, gelsemine, gelsemmine, ho-
matropine, hyoscine, hyoscyamine, lobeline, pelletierine,
physostigmine, pilocarpine, sparteine, strychnine, vera-
trine, and all other poisonous alkaloids and their salts,
compounds, and preparations; volatile or essential oil of
bitter almonds, natural and artificial; aconite, bella-
donna, calabar bean, cantharides, colchicum, conium,
cotton root, cocculus indicus, datura, digitalis, ergot, gel-
semium, henbane, ignatia, larkspur, lobelia, nux vomica,
rectly, any poison, without affixing, or causing to be
savin, acopola, solanum, stramonium, staphisagra, stro-
phanthus, veratrum viride, and their pharmaceutical
preparations and compounds; cantharidin, picrotoxin,
elaterin, santonin, their chemical compounds and deriva-
tives and preparations; 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;
phosphorous; 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.
241 (b). It shall be unlawful for any person to vend,
sell, dispense, give away, furnish, or otherwise dispose of,
or cause to be vended, sold, dispensed, given away, fur-
nished, or otherwise disposed of, either directly or indi-
rectly, any poison, without affixing, or causing to be
affixed, to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing
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