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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931.

YOHIMBIM TABLETS

AS POISON.

QUESTION OF COMPOSITION AND DEFINITION,

C.

of

The submission that Yohimbim tablets are an admixture as dis thirhed from the poison in its pure form, and that it therefore i

of Schedule A came under Part which made a record of sale un- Wan the legal poin! ndynuced by Mr. II Macnamara.

hehals Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co.. be fore Mr. Schield, at the Central Marintravy yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Watson were animon ed for selling Yohimbine, claari- fied as a poison, to a tierson un- known to the seller, and falling to enter particulars of the said

nie as required by law,

No Entry Mode. Inspector . Buoker, in

t

dence, stated that on June 23 he|

went to Messrs. Watson & Co.

tu, and asked the lady who came

forward to serve him for a bottle いま Yohimbine. She zave him a package containing

hich

WAPU

bottle in tablets

€

duced). She told him the price

A

Mr. Macnamara: Didymas

the Poisons Book? Witness: No.

DIVING DIANA.

This is the type of picture which might possibly win our amateur photograph competition, for which a prize of $20 is being awarded for A vgust.

there.

bis

the

He

was $1.25, and tendering $1.30, he

five received

cents in change, es coul!

being 200 no entry marle in the Poisons Bool and an to 10e ere asked as questions were use he interated to make of the After waiting for three or four seconds, be left the shop,

On June 28, he again wrul inte the dam and purchased a further bottle of Yohimbine This time he was served by Mr. W. Pater

whom he knew. This know mixture or preparation, although ingated for the benefit of retailers, Government, Mr. Macnamara contended that he lodge, there was again no entry lo avreed with the

Hook. The Pozso

Analyst in what was an obvious had no case to answer. in the

In this case, he said, they had Returning two or three minutes fact, that Yohimbim was mention-

clear and specifle words of ordin later, he told Mr. Paterson that edin. Part 1 as a poison.

In Part 2 of Mr. Macunara referred ary meaning he hail been instructed to take out

to the Ordinance- sumawonses arainst Messrs. Wat-Worship to the list of admixtures Schedule

specifically words which were not technical preparations son for not having the sale of the and

The Polsons taken into Part 1. and observed and which were ordinary words in poion entered in

that Yohimbim was not mentioned common use. They had not ac Bouk.

fle thought that If Mr. E. quired any technical meaning at R. Dovey, the Analyst, would so all, as far as he was aware. into the box, they would have cer- had taken considerable pains Replying

to another question, tuin material put before Mr. Bovey looking up the deßnition of "ad was which might change his opinioni.mixtures" and "preparations" in witness agreed that there

what could be regarded as a stan- ninst Menar..

Ordinary English. only one case

dard work-the Oxford Dic- Watson, concerning the sale of

tionary, and could find nothing to the first bottle on June 23.

(Continued on Page 11.) Mr. Mar numara: Although y

for Yohimbim, what you ac- got w

was Yohimbine tablets. They were

as such on the labelled bottle?-Witness:

They are now in the same con- alition as you bought them?--Yes, Proceeding, witness said that to the the first bottle was sent Government Analyst. There wors no directions in English as to the doses to be taken. "I might be a dead man if I had taken the whole

time," ten at one

witness marked.

Mr. Marnamara called for the evidence of the Government Analyst which he contended was necessary for his case.

Yes.

1'42-

Witness replied that it was not necessary under the Ordinance to have the Analyst called,

List of Poisons,

to answer.

Mr. Maesamara said it was his submission that he had no case He referred to the in the two parts of Schedule A Ordinance, giving a list of what poisons were specifically mention- ed in Part 1 to which the strie- tures applied, and another list of admixtures

of or preparations oisons cou

coutalued in Part 2 which made it unnecessary to enter those particulars, although they had to be labelled "Poisan.

His case was that the Yohim bine tablets eame within the classification of Part 2 as an ad-

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After handing his Worship list of Drugs and Poisons cata-

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