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2 . In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (a) advertisement means any printed, cyclo-styled, typed or written matter or a design, or picture or an announcement intended to be published, sold, distributed, affixed, inscribed, exhibited or announced (b) Drug includes any substance used as medicine whether for internal or external use by human beings in the treatment, mitigation or prevention, cure or relief of any disease, ailment or other condition of human organization. (c) Indecent advertisement means an advertisement which in the mind of a reader, spectator or listener directly or indirectly tends to excite lust or sexual appetite or to create feelings of disgust or abhorrence, or contains such matters as are notified by the 2State Government to be prejudicial to public morals. (d) Prescribed means prescribed by any rules made under this Act. (e) Public place means a place to which public is admitted and includes a place which is open to public gaze. (f) Registered medical practitioner means a person practicing Allopathy, Ayurvedic, Unani or any other system of medicine and who has been registered as such under any enactment for the time being in force. (g) Venereal disease includes syphilis, gonorrhea, soft cancer, venereal granuloma and lymph granuloma.