MATTER OF JUDGMENT
DOCTORS AND PRESCRIPTIONS
NO LIMITATION ON WHISKY,
(tmiTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
NEW YORK, 9th May. In the Federal District Court, Judge Knox ruled void the section of the Volstead Act limiting physicians' prescriptions to one pint of whisky per patient every ten . days. The Court granted an application by a local doctor for an injunction restraining the Prohibition enforcement agents from interfering with him, and seeking to prevent his prescribing any amount of \vhi3ky, -which, in his medical judgment, he considered necessary.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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88MATTER OF JUDGMENT Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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