The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-20
M PRESCRIPTION
FOR LIQUOR NOW
Statement Which Sheds More
Liuht on the Action OF
Greensboro Powers That
Be: Whiskey Not Medicine

ST greensboro uS Stc1SS
he alloved to sell liquor on prescrlp-
ton Of q physician. h commission
ers Yesterday afternoon, by a vote OF
two to one, passed an ordinance re
pealing the one providing tor sCcn
sales, the same to go INTO eHect
March list. At present only " drug
stores have license to dispense liquor
on prescription. commissioners
Brown and Fourshee voted yesterday
to refuse future license. while Mayor
Commissioner Murphy voted to con-
tinue the present regulation.
Commissioner Brown called atten-
ten to the fact that nearly 5000
liquor prescriptions had been used at
| drug stores here last year. calling for
over 1000 pints Of liquor, 500 bottles
Of beer and four gallons OF wine. lie
didn't think that amount at all neces-
sary for sickness, and to be on the
safe side proposed TO cut it out en-
tircly. To this Commissioner Four
shee agreed, and henceforth Green's
boro will be dry legally, except h
booze is contained in the beverages
the three near-beer saloons here dis
pcnse without paying a dollar or
revenue in the way Of license to the
State OF city.
DR.. J. W. Long, n Of the leading
physicians and surgeons Of the city
LII "a 1IlN 81 pAcAA
list. in speaking of the law this morn
ing declared it would be gladly well
coined by physicians here.
He said the county medical society
had recommended it, and that ply
sicians generally regarded the pro
scription liquor business as a great
evil. and they would gladly feel the
relief from having to comply with
requests fer prescriptions for liquor.
Dr. Long further said:
THE provision in the State prohibit
ton law allowing the drug stores to
sell VhiSkcV on prescription was
placed therein under h belief wide
iy prevalent that whiskey not only
is a good medicine. but is necessary
also in certain cases. | ain prepared
to say tina whiskey ~ neither q medi-
cine nor IL food in the true sense Of
the word. and this statement can be
easily established.
Il have practiced medicine 50 years
and ] do not believe I ever saw a life
saved by whiskey. I do my share Of
the surgical work in this section and
there are no cases more desperate
than in yet ! have not writ
ten u whiskey prescription III over two
years.
I'm many counties in the State, as
Surry. the counties do not license drug
stores and in some counties. as in lie.
nolr. the physicians Voluntarily have
; agreed not to write Whfskey prescrip-
tons.
There seems to be a disposition tc
5 put all the blame for the 5000 pre-.
: scriptionS on the physicians Of Greens
9 boro. | want to say that none re.
: joice more than the emb OF In
Guilford County Medical Society tina
Whiskey is not to be sold in Greens
boro.
"1n the first place. with one or two
. unfortunate executions, there Is no
a moro sober set Of men in the count,
n than the physicians. In the secont
; place. the whiskey prescriptions the,
) write are largely due to the almos
. universal popular demand COMING
from the 1aity hat sick folks us
. have whiskey.
" In addition to this insistence 70
Whishey for the sick coming. I an
= sorry TO say, from the church mem
I bers as Well as The sinners, there /
! a constant cla1nor from those who
under one DreteXt Or another. wan
" whis!<ey. and this class dog the foot
r steps or our busy physicians. ] knov
e OF one office in Greensboro. where
e the physicians tell me, the reques
d Tor Whlskey prescriptions. which
usually not great, will average fror
10 to Il per day.
1t announcer point to be Temembefe
l. IS that if YOU will scan the list o
o physicians who wrote tho 5000 pre-
II scrlptions, you will see the narnes Q
physicians from far and near. som
entire strangers to Greensboro and he
citizens, not to speak OF the prescril
e tons written by dentists, y~eteriHar
&c surgeons and others.
2 please remember that the doctor
c. who write the prescriptions do go 70
IS the people and the people are tn
at ones who drink the liquor. The VA
majority OF the best physicians
7" Guilford will rejoice with me that n
tie more whiskey is to be sold in Greens
&c boro.'
ye Memorial Meeting.