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Show DEPTH OF PURSE IS rule nyper Quantity of Hard Liquor i for Sick Defined WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The amount of hard liquor a sick man may acquire legally Is definitely fixed by statute, but the on'y limit to the amount of wine he may obtain la the ' sound and honest" Judgment of his physician and. perhaps, the dpth of hts purse. Prohihitif Commissioner Kramer, in a formal announcement today, ways 1 there aeemed to be some confusion aa to the quantity of win' that physician may pre-siTih. To clear up ult doubts be las down this rule: 'TnMl fiirther orders, physicians may prescribe In their practice such rpi"n-iui-s of wine as they. In the exercls1 of their sound and honest judgment, deem necessary In the particular ens, if they in good faith believe that the une nf Winn as a medicine by the p-r-Min for whom it is prescribed is necessary neces-sary and will aff rd relief to him from aome known ailment." |