National Prohibition Act Prescription Form For Medicinal Liquor
National Prohibition Act Prescription Form For Medicinal Liquor
- Description
- 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 Spiritus frumenti [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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1929-10-21
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 14.2 cm; 4 17/32 in x 5 19/32 in
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.508
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.508
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
