The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-23
LIQUOR TO BE HAD FOR
MEDICINAL PURPOSES
Doctors May Prescribe and Druggists
May Sell Patients Not More
Than a Quart Each.


Washington, July >1.-Section l of
the Act of November 81, 1913, (War
Prohibition law provides that after
juno so, 1919, until the conclusion of
the present war; and thereafter until
the termination OF rehabilitation the
date of which shall be determined and
proclaimed by the president, no dis
titled spirits held in bond, shall be re
moved therefrom for beverage pur-
poses, except for export; also that no
beer, wine or other Intoxicating or
vinous liquors shall be sold for beyer-
age purposes, except for export. 1t
authorizes the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, with the approval of
the secretary of the treasury, to pre-
scribe rules and regulations regard
ing the manufacture and sale of dis
titled spirits and removal of distilled
spirits held in bond for other than
beverage purposes and TO govern the
manufacture, sale and distribution OF
vines for sacramental, medical, or
other than beverage uses.
In view of these provisions and OF
| the further fact that the commission
| err has jurisdiction under the general
revenue laws over spirits and wines
on bonded premises ana Withdrawals
| from bond for export, the following
Instructions are issued:
| Physicians may prescribe wines
and liquors. for internal use. or al.
cohol for external uses. but in every
such case each prescription shall be
in duplicate, and both copies be
signed in the physicians handwrit
| ms. The quantity prescribed for a
single patient at 4 given time shall
not exceed one quart. In no case
shall physician prescribe alcoholic
liquors unless the patient Is under
his constant personal supervision.
Any licensed pharmacist or drug
yist may fill such prescriptions %
| if his name appears on the prescrip-
ton in the physicians handwriting
and (2) If he has made application
and received permit, from 1877, in
accordance with the provision Of T.
u. 27SS, and CD. ii he has qualified
Is retail liquor dealer, by the pay
ment of special tax. No such pre-
scription may be reiilled.
Pharmacists should refuse to fill
prescriptions if they have any reason
to believe that physicians are dis
pensing for other than strictly legiti-
mate medical uses, or that a patient
is securing, through one or more
physicians, quantities in excess of
the amount required for legitimate
usee.
Wholesale or retail liquor dealers
having stocks of wines or liquors on
hand, may sell TO pharmacists hold
ing permit, upon receipt of order on
form 739 and in conformity with the
provision of r. D. PISS, until their
present supplies are exhausted Such
orders may be filled from spirits tax
paid at the $40 rate.
Wholesale or retail liquor dealers
who are not licensed druggists or
pharmacists will not be permitted to
qualify, after their present stocks are
exhausted, to deal in their beverage
or non.bevesage spirits.
Wholesale pharmacists may con
tinue to qualify for the sale of liquors
or wines for non-beverage purposes.
inconformity with the provisions Of
T. d. 27S8
The procedure outlined in t. D.
zoo Tor the production OF WlleS III
quantities not exceeding 1000 gallons
should be followed where wines are
produced for sacramental purposes
by churches or religious orders, and
the production and distribution is on
rely under cletical supervision
Such wines may be removed from tho
premises where produced, in accord
ance with the provision of 7. ID. 27SS.
The labels required by that I. d.
may he omitted.
The details of the procedure out.
lined in the two treasury decisions
mentioned, VIII he furnished to any
interested person, by the collector OF
internal revenue for the district in
which the wines arc produced.
If objections are made to collec-
tors that the provisions of the treas
ury decisions are inappllcable to the
established procedure of any recog-
nized religious body, and that they
impede or interfere with historic
rites or customs, the collector viii
carefully investigate the facts and
make full report, TO the commissions
er in order that 1t may be determined
whether the regulations should he
modified to meet the needs of the
particular case. Wine used for sac
ramental purposes Is subject TO tax