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or liquids containing morphine, or mixed together with cpium or morphine, of cocaine, x and B eucaine and all other materials, which could be considered as substitutes for morphine (1) when they are destined for medical use, is permitted to :

a) pharmacists;

b) physicians qualified to have a dispensary;

c) veterinary surgeons, where no dispensary exists, or where there was no dispensary, when they established themselves there,

These latter are however not qualified to poaseas, eto, so-called opium-pills, opiumpovders, anti-opium powdors or other romedios, which aro said to be useful for breaking the habit of using opium.

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Import of medical opium, morphine, cocaine, destined for modical use is permitted to qualified persons as pharmacists, physicians, voterinary surgeons, in qum tities ne may be requirod, but at the discretion of the propor medionl nutho- rity.

Export of the above-mentioned substancos for modionl or scientific purposes is allowed, when it is ovidant from

deposition that the import is approved of by the competent Authority nt destination.

The production or manufacture, the pessossion, to, and the sale of coonine for permitted export puposes, is iso permitted to thoso, who havo licenco for it from the Governor- Gonor-1.

The above-mentioned persons, also the pharmacists, are obliged to keep a register containing the data meant sub o of Article 10.

The possession, etc, of the above-mentioned substances, in so far as to give them the opportunity of personally dodng with or administering it, is permitted not only to the persons mentioned above sub n, b and c but also to :

17 Physicians, who have no dispensary;

And in so far as these substances, etc., do not belong

(1). What must be considered as a substitute of morphine, is decided by the Civil Medical Service, Separate regulations ng mennt sub d of Article 14 are thus superfluous,