National Prohibition Act Prescription Form For Medicinal Liquor
date: label: date made
content: 1929-10-21
notes: label: Description
content: While the production, transport, and sale of liquor was illegal during Prohibition, the National Prohibition Act allowed alcohol for medicinal and religious use. This loophole was often exploited as a way to acquire alcohol, but it required a prescription that cost $3 from the doctor and another $3 or $4 to get it filled from a pharmacist. A doctor could prescribe up to a pint of a certain kind of liquor, or <i>Spiritus frumenti</i> [spirits of grain], the official medical name for whisky. This prescription for a pint of whisky was prescribed on October 21, 1929 and filled the same day.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.508
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.508
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: prescription form, medicinal whiskey
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 14.2 cm; 4 17/32 in x 5 19/32 in