Arizona republican., 1921-10-25
MELLON ISSUES REGULATIONS TO PERM|T I USE OF MEDICINAL BEER
[RepubIican A. p. Leased wirel

WASHINGTON. Oct. 24-As unex- pected as a rainstorm in a desert regulations permitting manufacture and use of beer for medical purposes were issued today by the treasury department.
 Withheld since March 3, when former Attorney General Palmer held the use of beer as medicine to be legal under the prohibition laws, is suance of the beer regulations came as surprise to leaders of the dry forces who declared there had been an understanding with the treasury that the new rules should not be promulgated until the senate had acted on the anti-beer bill.
 Issuance of the beer regulations will cause redoubled efforts to effect passage of the anti-beer measures, senate leaders declared while Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti Saloon league, described the treasury's action as Hess defensible than at any other time"
 Secretary Mellon. in announcing beer rules. declared that the legal rights of the parties concerned being plain. The department is unable longer to delay issuance of these reg ulations"
 The new rules cover comprehen- sfvely the use of beer, wines and spurious liquors as medicine The amount of beer a physician may pre- scribe at one time for the use of the same person is limited to two and one half gallons, equivalent of a case, but no arbitrary limit is placed upon the number of such presentations a physician may write or the same person may obtain within a given period.
 Two quarts of wine was the limit put on single prescription for that beverage, but otherwise the regula- tlons are the same as for beer
 Splrltuous liquors are limited to one pint within any ten day period and alcohol for external use was
 limited to pint to the same per son a one time
 Prescriptions for these medicines may be filled only by a licensed phar- macist who is also a retail druggist or licensed pharmacist in the en- ploy of a retail druggist.
 Prescriptions are not reliable and the regulations declare that a phar- maclSt should refuse t6 fill any prescription for liquor if he has any reason to believe that physicians are prescribing for other than medical uses or taat patient is securing through one or more persons Quanti- ties Of Intoxicating liquor in excess of the amount necessary for medi- cinal purposes"
 In connection with the issuance of prescriptions the regulations said: NO prescription may be issued for a greater quantity of intoxicating | hquor than is necessary for use as | medicine by person for whom pre- | Scr4ped Tn the treatment of an ail- ment from which such patient is known by the physician to be suffer l ing"
 Besides beer, the regulations permit use for medical purposes of other in l toMcaung malt liquors such as ale. | porter malt extracts and similar fer mented malt liquors containing one
 hat or l per cent or more of alcohol | by volume.
 | Manufacture of these medical prep arations is confined to duly qualified 1 brewers on brewery premises and
 may be sold by them only in bottles and closed cases.
 Right to prescribe distilled spirits. l WInes and malt liquors for medical l purposes is confined to such physi- l clans as have obtained permits for l any intoxicating liquor Such a phy- 1 slclan may prescribe for a person on whom he is in attendance. if after i physical examination of such person i or 1T physical examination is imprac- l CContinued on Page TWo)