Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-27
LIMIT ON OLD REMEDIES
ANTI-NARCOTIC LAW
Days of Old-Fashioned Medical
Remedies.
SOLD ONLY ON PRESCRIPTIONS.
Renewal, Except Under Doctors Orders
Also Prohibited --Paregoric One
of Few Exceptions.

The days OF the Old-faSh1onedm medical
remedies, the kind which our fathers
and our fathers fathers have been
purchasing for the old-fashioned,
plain ailments of life from time imme-
mortal, have passed away.
No longer is IL possible to hand n bot
tie over the counter of tho corner drug
store and have 1t filled with Spuibb's
mixture, Doyer's powder and laud-
anum. The enactment OF the Harrison
Anti-Narcotic law has killed the GUS
tom These are not the only hard
shiDs realized by persoLs who are fire.
quently under the necessity of taking
medicine
A hundred and one other mixtures.
in both tincture and tablet form. US
ually considered harmless, can now be
pun chased only by presentation of a
specially systomatized ph sician's
blank containing, in addition to the
prescription, the name and addres OF
the user, the name and address Of the
physician, his registered number and
the date on which the prescription
was written. When the quantity so OBJ
tanned is used up by the patient he
cannot, as in the days of yore simply
go to the same druggist and by imply
presenting his vial or box receive q
fresh supply For every fresh supply 4
new prescription must be made out
This new system, besides giving the
patient an extra doctors charge TO pay
for every prescription, is also having
its effect upon the druggist Hitherto
the filling of a prescription at drug
store generally meant a series OF at
least four or five refllings. Tie fact
that the druggist held the prescrip-
tion made it necessary for the patient
to return to him for other amounts
Now that nev prescription must he
presented each time. the druggist near
est the doctors Office where IL is made
out is likely to get the filing of it.
When winter time rolls around again
and the season of hacking coughs re-
opens a still larger number of persons
will become conscious of the new re-
strictions. Many OF the oidsSspedles
such as terpin hydrate, coryza and
chloride, are on the taboo list. The
old-fashioned remedy that stands un-
tonched by the law is paregoric. The
user of this pain killer may get as
much as he pleases or as much as the
Judgment of the druggist allows him to
have. All narcotics that contain two
grains of opium are affected by the
law. but paregOric, containing but 1
9-11 grains, just comes within the law
Druggists say that this Irug is accord
ngly taking the place of the stronger
ones with great many of those adj
dicted to the drug habit
During the week following the eli
forcement of the new law these drug
tends came to the drug stores in
drovcs, with their much-belabeled bot
ties, asking for paregoric. The de-
sire for it was so apparent that the
higher class druggists refused to fill
such orders, so that since then the
army of paregoric consumers has evi-
IDENTIFY drifted to those druggists found
to possess easier conscienccs.
A heavy punishment is i'm store for
all druggists who fail 20 live up to the
strictest observance OF the details OF
the new drug law.