Check out this prescription for whiskey written in 1928, during the Prohibition Era, which I stumbled across last week in the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum. The patient was directed to take a “tablespoonful 3 times daily”. Although alcohol was outlawed for general use, the exhibition explained that “it was still available for medicinal use by prescription… In fact, many Prohibition-era cartoons depict pharmacies as the new saloons, showing the pharmacist as barkeep.”
“Special prescription forms with duplicate copies were issued by the U.S. Treasury Department Bureau of Prohibition. The prescriptions, usually for whiskey, were void after three days from issuance; pharmacists were required to file the duplicate copies for possible inspection by Federal Officers. Prescribing physicians and pharmacists were required to verify the patient’s identity, address and other personal information and were to be held liable…”
History repeating itself?
Nice find