-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Adults
- Archaeological News
- Calendars & Time
- Children
- Collections
- Cooking Magic
- Crime & Punishment
- Death & Culture
- Documentaries
- Entertainment
- Fashion
- Games & Toys
- Inventions
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Medical Arts & Science
- Mythology
- Our Fancies
- Relics & Artifacts
- Social Psychology Experiments
- Taboos
- Technology
- The Joy of Musik
- Wartime
Archives
Other Postings
Tag Archives: doctors
Speakeasy: Medicinal Alcohol & Prohibition Prescriptions
During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol. Licensed doctors, with pads of government-issued prescription forms printed on treasury paper, advised their patients to take regular doses of hooch to stave off a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Entertainment, Medical Arts & Science, Wartime
Tagged 18th Amendment, Al Capone, booze, clubs, dance hall, doctors, Empire Distillery, home parties, hooch, Man Cave, Medical Cannabis, medicinal alcohol, nurses, pharmacy, prescription, private, Prohibition, quackery, Roaring 20s, Sleeman Brewery, speakeasy, The National Prohibition Act, U.S. Treasury Department, whiskey, wine
Leave a comment