PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.
LIQUOR FOR MEDICINAL USE. Washington, Dec. 9. The American Medical Association which recently approved of the use of whisky medicinally, asked Mr. Mellon to permit a physician to prescribe mare than a pint of whisky per patient every ten days. It also askea that the Government arrange for shopfc to be supplied with bonded liquors exclusively as a guard against inferior or deleterious liquor, which were all physicians oft-times were able to obtain, none other being available saw through purchase from illicit sources. Mr. Mellon promised to take tl|e matter under consideration.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 303, 11 December 1922, Page 2
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