2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/8/2023
The Drug Store copy, 5-1/2" x 4-1/2", of the Prescription for "Spiritus frumenti" (whiskey), issued August 24, 1930 with patient name, address as well as the doctor and drugstore information. 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.
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