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Chemists and druggists

Chemists and druggists. The (English) Pharmacy Act, 1933, provides for registration and abrogates certain provisions of the (English) Pharmacy Acts of 1852, 1868 and 1869, the (English) Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, the Dangerous Drugs Acts, 1920, 1923 and 1925, which otherwise regulate the business of chemists and druggists, and provide for their examination. Any registered person is entitled to sell drugs, other than poisons which are contained in the Schedules to the Act of 1933 or added thereto under the provisions of that Act. Others must not falsely imply that they are registered members of the Pharmaceutical Society or use the description of chemist, druggist, pharmacist, etc. Only authorized persons may sell poisons. It is an offence to use such titles unless authorized by the Pharmacy Acts. Medical practitioners, qualified veterinary surgeons, and certain other persons, as, for example, those selling certain scheduled poisonous substances for agricultural purposes, are not w...

Gallium

A rare metallic element found combined in certain zinc ores It is white hard and malleable resembling aluminium and remarkable for its low melting point 86deg F 30deg C Symbol Ga at wt 699 Gallium is chiefly trivalent resembling aluminium and indium It was predicted with most of its properties under the name eka aluminium by the Russian chemist Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law This prediction was verified in its discovery in 1875 by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum two violet lines in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees...

Apothecaries

Apothecaries [fr. apothicaire, Fr., fr. apoqnkn, Gk.], persons who combine the giving of medical advice with the supply of medicines prepared by themselves. Their practice in England and Wales is mainly regulated by the (English) Apothecaries Act, 1815 (55 Geo. 3, c. 194) (which recites and partly repeals but otherwise confirms the charter of James the First to the Apothecaries Company), and the (English) Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874, (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34). To 'act or practise as an apothecary' without a certificate which under the earlier Act is an offence ,indicates an habitual or continuous course of conduct, and consequently an offender is only liable to one penalty though several persons may have been attended to, Apothecaries Co. v. Jones, (1893) 1 QB 89. An apothecary, as such, may sell drugs prescribed by another as well as drugs prescribed by himself; a chemist may not prescribe but only sell drugs: a medical practitioner, as such, may only sell drugs prescribed by himself...

Patent medicine

Patent medicine, A patent medicine means medicine in respect of which a patent is in force, Aphali Pharmaceuticals v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 2227.Patent or proprietary medicines are--(1) those enumerated in the schedule to the (English) Medicine Stamp Act, 1812; (2) all other medicines intended for human use and claimed to be made by a secret process or protected by letters-patent, or which have been advertised as beneficial to the prevention, cure, or relief of any ailment or disorder affecting the human body. Under the (English) Medicine Stamp Acts, 1802 and 1804, duties were imposed on each bottle or package according to the price. These duties are payable by the manufacturers and collected by means of labels of appropriate amounts, so affixed to the packages as to be destroyed when they are opened. The duties were doubled by the Finance Act, 1915: this increased rate has been continued from year to year. The schedule to the Act of 1812 exempts f...

Poison

Poison (poison, Fr.; fr. potio, Lat., a drink--applied originally to a medicated drink or draught].The administration of poison or other destructive thing, if done with intent to commit murder, is a felony, punishable with penal servitude for life, or any term not exceeding three years, or with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years [(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 11], and so is the attempt to administer with like intent, whether bodily injury be effected or not (s. 14).On a trial for murder of A, by poisoning, evidence of a subsequent poisoning of other persons is admissible against the prisoner, Reg. v. Geering, (1849) 18 LJMC 215; Rex v. Armstrong, (1922) 38 TLR 631; as also of antecedent poisoning, Reg. v. Garner, (1863) 3 F&F 681.Unlawful and malicious administering of poison so as to endanger life or to inflict grievous bodily harm is a felony, punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment; and such adminis-tration with intent to i...

Baumeacute

Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baumeacute in the graduation of his hydrometers of or relating to Baumeacutes scales or hydrometers There are two Baumeacute hydrometers One which is used with liquids heavier than water sinks to 0deg in pure water and to 15deg in a 15 per cent salt solution the other for liquids lighter than water sinks to 0deg in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10deg in pure water In both cases the graduation based on the distance between these fundamental points is continued along the stem as far as desired...

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Chemist - Law Dictionary Search Results

Chemists and druggists

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