IN GREAT BRITAIN.
One London (taper recently published a story to the effect that three New York physicians wrote l.MMi.Oon prescriptions for drug addict* within a period of six month*. This statement provoked loud cries of delight in wet circles, until some sceptical soul pu.led out hla pencil and figured that three physicians, to write 1.500.000 prescriptions, would have had to work twentyfour hours a <lny. Sunday* Included, for
six months. Prohibition has done some strange things, but it hasn’t yet made it possible for physician* to go without sleep for six months.—Exchange.
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White Ribbon, Volume 27, Issue 320, 18 February 1922, Page 8
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