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Show BLAME PHYSICIANS FOR GROWTH OF DOPE HABIT Druggists Say Prescription! and Not Patent Medicine the Cause, New York. ri imo for tho prevalence prev-alence and growth of the morphine built was placed on tho shouldtis of physicians, who prescribed the dreg, t a meeting of dnif-Ri.- td bore tonight to-night to protest against tho recently enacted city ordinance prohlbl'lng tho nl at ntall of any preparation containing con-taining morphine or lis sain except upon a din-tor's presor tion. The ordlnanco is aimed primarily at paregoi le and at stomach remedies, .rcordirg to i en, be: (lf (i board of health v h'i .; rs !:; !rt:::::-rj!:'.J !.-. obtaining ob-taining its jvesaeo. Caswell Mayo, one Of the ;.tiggl i4, R, be li.nl nmdo a canvass by mail of scv ral anliar'tw u- 1 th- icplfea convinced bill) 9H I er cent, or the victims of drnK formed the habit as a result of using prescript Ions Riven by eysl- i clans and only 8 per cent, from using proprietary medicine j |