The law relating to poisons and pharmacy : with notes and cases.

  • Jones, W. S. Glyn-
Date:
1909
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    Medical Practitioner box you will find that only one or two are to be taken. Or, if there is nothing on the box, the man might say, ' Is it a strong medicine 1» and the chemist would answer accordingly. Then a conversation might take place of this kind, as to the medicine relating to the purpose for which the medicine was to be taken, which still would be very far from bringing a man within the scope and inten- tion of the Act of Parliament itself, which was passed to prevent people from prescribing on the basis of what they themselves discovered to be possibly the matter with the patient, unless they had received the necessary certificate after passing the required examination. (s) Legally Qualified Medical Practitioner.—The Medi- cal Act, 1858, s. 34, enacts as follows:— After the 1st day of January, 1859, the words 1 legally qualified medical practitioner,' or 'duly qualified medical practitioner,' or any words importing a person recognised by law as a medical practitioner, or member of the medical profession, when used in any Act of Parliament, shall be constituted to mean a person registered under this Act. (t) A Certificate in Veterinary Surgery from the High- land and Agricultural Society of Scotland. — By the Veterinary Surgeons' Act, 1881, 44 & 45 Vict., c. 62, s. 17, persons who at the time of the passing of that Act held one of these certificates was entitled to use the titles reserved by that Act to the use of qualified persons. The Society ceased to grant these certificates in 1881. The holders of such certificates were not exempted by the Pharmacy Act, 1868, from any of the provisions of that Act, and the provisions of section 1 of the Act of 1869 only exempt them from such provisions in the first 15 sections of the 1868 Act as would prevent them dis- pensing for animals under their care. (u) Dispensing Medicines for Animals under his Care. —Nothing contained in the first fifteen sections of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, is to prevent either a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or a person who holds a certificate in veterinary surgery from the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, from dispensing medicines for animals under his care. It is not easy to see why in the case of a member of the