Evening star., 1920-01-30
TELLS HOW TO GET
MEDICINAL LIQUOR
Announcement of Internal
Revenue Bureau Details
Sale Regulations.

| Methods by which intoxicating
| liquors may be obtained for medicinal
purposes and detailed regulations
/ governing their sale have been made
! public by the bureau of internal
| revenue. Announcement also was
made that the bureau had compiled
a system of permits providing a
/ definite and fixed channel through
| which all intoxicating liquors must
move. and by which hereafter the
government will know the location
| of every gallon of distilled liquor
within the nations boundaries, except
that stored in private homes.
Warns Against ProfteerIng.
| In setting forth the ways in which
| liquor may be procured Commissioner
! Roper took occasion TO issue warn
ing against profiteering in its sale.
| The commissioner declared that ex-
| orbitant charges for liquor for me-
| dicinal purposes certainly places the
! dispensers thereof in the class with
profiteers and they will be investi
! gated
Mr.. Roper also announced that all
| liquor seized under federal law prior
| to last October IS. unless claimed
under the sxtyday ruling. would be
sold by order of the court under the
/ jurisdiction of which it is held. 1t
must De SOlO. UON ever. " d hoiuci
of a permit to use it either for me-
dicinal or non-beverage purposes.
| Rules Prescribed.
Both the physician who prescribes
| and the pharmacist who sells liquor
| the regulations provide, must have "a
permit, which may be obtained from
| the federal prohibition director. Other
details of the method by which liquor
for medicinal purposes may be pur-
chased follow:
ANY physician duly licensed to
practice medicine and actively en-
gagged in the practice of such profes-
sion may obtain permit to prescrlpe
Intoxicating liquor and may then
issue prescriptions for distilled spirits
,, wines or certain alcoholic medicinal
nreparations for medicinal purposes
for persons upon whom he is in at
tendance in cases where he beIeves
that the use of liquor as q medicine
is necessary. In no case may splrltuouS
LIQUOR be prescribed by one or more
nhysicians in excess of one pint for
the same person within any perloo OIL
ten days.
"AII prescriptions for intoxicating
LIQUOR are required to be written on
prescription blanks provided oy the
bureau, except that in emergency
cases physicians may use thelr reg
ular prescription blanks.
"Prescriptions for Intoxicating liquor
NAV be filled only by registered phar-
ms cists who hold permits authorizing
them to do so or who are employed
by retail druggists holding such per
mits. Pharmacists and druggists solu
ing such permits Will procure their
sunplies of intoxicating liquor from
manufacturers or other persons hold
ing permits authorizing them to Sell
liquor. .;r+;ons for
Intoxicating liquor are issued by phy-
sicians may procure the iiauor pr
scribed through pharmacists or drug
gists holding permits without obtain
ing a permit.
"Physicians may also obtain per-
mits emitting them to procure not
more than six quarts of distilled
shirts. wines or certain alcoholic
preparations during any calendar
year for administration to their pa
tients in emergency cases where oe-
lay in procuring liquor on prescrlp
tion through pharmacist mlgnt
have serious consequence to the pa
tient.
Hospitals Included.
"Provision is also made in the reg
u;ations for issuing permits to hos
ritals and sanatoriums to enaoie
chem to procure intoxicating liquor
! to be administered for medicinal pur-
noses to patients at such institu-
lions, and also for issuing permits
to manufacturing. industrial and
other establishments maintaining
first laid stations. authorizing them to
! procure such liquor for admlnistra
| ton to their employees for medicinal
purposes in emergency cases."
| Foreign Senmen May Have Liquor.
| Foreign seamen hereafter may have
/ their liquor with their meals while
their ships are docked in American
ports, according to announcement by
Assistant Secretary Shouse of the
Treasury. After numerous foreign
governments had protested against
the order sealing stocks of liquors on
| ships in American ports. the question
was laid before Attorney General
Palmer. He was said to have held
it could not be enforced except In the
case of American-owned ships.