When i use a word.. Medicines regulation-pharmacological offences against the person

In 1861 the UK parliament enacted several laws under the general title The Criminal Law Consolidation Acts. One of these, the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, covered a range of offences, including: Assaults; rape, abduction, and defilement of women; child-stealing; bigamy; and attempts to procure abortion. In three sections the law covered the use of "chloroform, laudanum, or other stupefying or overpowering drug, matter, or thing, with intent in any of such cases thereby to enable himself or any other person to commit, or with intent in any of such cases thereby to assist any other person in committing, any indictable offence.."These offences constituted either felonies or misdemeanours, with corresponding penalties. In one other section the act covered the use of "any poison or other noxious thing, or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child."The second of these provisions was later superseded by the 1973 Abortion Act, although not in Northern Ireland, but the first is still covered by the 1861 act.