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Appendix 6<br />

Substances included in the Schedule <strong>of</strong> Poisons (Schedule A)<br />

in the Pharmacy Bill, 1867<br />

Arsenic and its preparations<br />

Oxalic Acid<br />

Prussic Acid<br />

Chlor<strong>of</strong>orm<br />

Cyanides <strong>of</strong> Potassium and Mercury<br />

Strychnine and all poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts<br />

Aconite and its preparations [Monkshood]<br />

Opium, its Extract, and Laudanum<br />

Corrosive Sublimate [Mercuric Chloride] 1<br />

Emetic Tartar [Antimony Potassium Tartrate] 2<br />

Nitrates <strong>of</strong> Mercury, and Red and White Precipitates [Red<br />

Mercuric Oxide] 3 [Mercury Ammonium Chloride] 4<br />

Belladonna and its preparations [Deadly Nightshade –<br />

Hyoscyamine, Atropine and Hyoscine]<br />

Essential Oil <strong>of</strong> Almonds, unless deprived <strong>of</strong> its Prussic Acid<br />

Cantharides<br />

Savin and its oils [Young shoots <strong>of</strong> Juniperus Sabina which<br />

contain Savinin and Podophyllotoxin]<br />

1 Reynolds, Martindale, p. 1387.<br />

2 Reynolds, Martindale, p. 39.<br />

3 S. Budavari, (ed.), The Merck Index 12 th edn. (Whitehouse Station, NJ, 1996), p. 1004, item 5935.<br />

4 Budavari, The Merck Index, p. 1003, item 5927.<br />

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