The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28

permit to the applicant and may re- turn it to the commissioner for can cellaticn.
 Manufacturers using grain alcohol in making pharmaceuticals. patent and proprietary medicines, laboratory supplies, perfumes, extracts, soda water flavors and the like, are re- quired not only to secure a permit and give bond, but to furnish fairly full information as to how the busi- ness is conducted. With the applica- ton there must come to the state di- rector a complete list of products to be manufactured, the alcoholic strength by volume, the complete formula for each product and the label under which it is to be sold.
 A corps of trained pharmacists passes on all formulas thus submit ted. To obtain approval, a formula must be such that the product when finished will be unfit TOT use as beverage and contain no more alco- hol than is necessary for extraction, solution and preservation of the in gredients.
 If all requirements are met, the manufacturer Is given a bacis permit to use alcohol. Or the permit may authorize the use not of alcohol but of wine, which takes the place of al cohol in many authorized pharma- CeullCaI form uIaS. me DaSlC permit, however, does not authorize the pur- chase of alcohol or wine. For each purchase made, q separate permit must be secured from the state pro hibition director.
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 Case Of The Retail Druggist.
 Three times over, the retail drug gist, if he wishes to avail himself of the full privileges of the law. goes I of the pharmaceutical manufactures. He may obtain three permits. One of them authorizes him to use alco- hol in pharmaceutical work; the second permits him to sell alcohol as such on physicians prescriptions and the third permits him to fill prescriptions for potable liquor, if they are written on required pre- scription blanks and signed by phy- sicans who have secured permits to prescribe liquor. The potable liquor permit however, is issued to drug elsts in only half the states of the Union. In the other 24 states there are state laws prohibiting the sale of potable liquor, even on prescrip- tions
 Both manufacturer and druggist are limited to their actual needs in the quantity of alcohol they may purchase, and regular reports are
 
 and stocks on hand.
 The actual need < suggested by the druggist himself and determined upon result of investigation. fn no ease can the liquor sales of d whole sale druggist exceed 10 per cent of his total drug bus,n
 regulation was adopted under the present administration. and 1t is one of the surest safeguards in the mat ter of control upon weN-est stablished legitimate basis.
 Permits For Doctors.
 Like the druggist, the physician may obtain three kinds of permit for the use of alcohol. The doctor who compounds some of his own medicine may obtain permit authorizing him to use alcohol in pharmaceutical manufacture. He may also obtain a permit authorizing him to prescribe liquor or alcohol. For this purpose regulation prescription blanks are provided, not to exceed 100 per guar ter, and he may not prescribe more than half pint of alcohol or pint of whisky for any patient in a ten day period.
 Finally, the physician may have a permit to carry alcohol in his medi- cine case or to keep it in his office for emergency use. If he is gem eral practitioner. his emergency SUD- ply Is limited to six quarts a year. The rule, however, is flexible, de- pending upon actual legitimate needs, and some classes of specialists are permitted as much as ten gallons of alcohol a year.
 Dentists permits authorize the rss of two gallons of alcohol d year in