Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-02-11
HOW TO OBTAIN A NIP.
Sale of Red Eye in Hands of
Physicians.
SECURED BY PRESCRIPTION
Stringent Regulations Whereby Booze
May Be Dispensed by Doctors
to Their Patients.

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Washington, Feb. 1O.-EIethods
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 ana
fixed channel through which all in
ltOxicating liquors must move and by
which hereafter the government will
know the location of every gallon of
distilled liquor within the nation S
boundaries, except that stored in pri-
waite homes.
In setting forth the ways in which
liquor may be secured, Commissioner
Roper took occasion to issue a warn
ing against profteering in it's sale
The commissioner declared that ex-
orbitant charges for liquor for medi-
cinal purposes certainly places the
dispensers thereof in a class with the
profiteers and they will be investi-
gated
MIR. Roper also announced that all
liquor seized under the federal law
prior to last October %, unless
claimed under the sixty days ruling
order Of the court under the jurisdic-
ton of which it is held. 1t must be
sold, however, to a holder of a permit
to use it for medicinal or non-bever-
age purposes.
| Both the physician who prescribes
and the pharmacist who sells liquor,
1oD 10 10 CT h q
permit which may be obtained from
the federal prohibition director.
Other details Of the method by which
! liquor for medicinal purposes may be
purchased follow;
ANY physician duly licensed to
practice medicine and actively en-
gagged in the practice of such profess
sion may obtain permit to prescribe
intoxicating liquor and may then is
sue prescriptions for distilled spirits,
wines or certain alcoholic medicinal
preparations for medical purposes
! for persons upon whom he is in at
tendance in cases where he believes
! the use of liquor as a medicine is
necessary. In no case may splrltu-
Gus liquor be prescribed by one or
more physicians in excess of one pint
for the same person in any period OF
ten days.
''All prescriptions for intoxicating
liquor are required to be written on
prescription blanks provided by the
bureau, except that in emergency
cases physicians may use their reg
ular prescription blanks.
/ Prescriptions for intoxicating Ii
quor may be filled only by registered
pharmacists who hold permits author
izing them to do so, or who are en-
ployed by retail druggists holding
such permits. Pharmacists and drug
gists holding such permits will pro
cure their supplies of Intoxicating Ii
quor from manufacturers or other
persons holding permits authorizing
them to sell liquor.
Persons to whom prescriptions fol
Intoxicating liquor are issued by ply
sicians may procure the liquor pre-
scribed through druggists holding
permits without obtaining a permit
Physicians may also obtain per-
\ mits emitting them to procure not
more than six quarts of distilled spir
! it's, wines or certain alcoholic prep
arations during any calendar year
for administration to their patients
in emergency cases where delay in
procuring liquor on a prescription
through pharmacist might have ser
Gus consequences to the patient
/ Provision is also made in regula
! lions for issuing permits in hospitals
and ssanatoriums to enable them tt
procure liquor to be administered fol
medicinal purposes to patients at such
institutions and also for issuing per
mits to manufacturing, industrial and
/ other establishments maintaining first
aid stations, authorizing them to pro
cure such liquor for administration tt
their employees for medicinal purposes
in emergency cases.
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