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Show Use of Medicine as Beverage Laid Upon Druggists WASHIN'rtTOX. March 10 ! Drug manufacturers, asserting I tht prohibition regulations are curtailing preparation of "essential "essen-tial medicinal agents" have railed ;i pr.i'.fft meeting here Monday under aiispieips of the American irug Manufacturers' association and tho organization of pharmaceutical pharma-ceutical chemists. Most of the larger producers of medicinal preparations will attend, 11 was announce d. Alcohol as an extractive solvent, or preservative must be Included in hundreds of compounds, a statement said, which ' may be fit for beverage purposes, especially if the term is stretched to cover those- alcoholic addicts who will take chances on anything containing contain-ing ulcohol." The logical and eojultablo way of enforcing the law U- by ferreting ferret-ing out purchasers and sellers of alcohol for bevxrjige purposes and rot by claaelfxing -.-aent.al med-lcul med-lcul prepantfiois as intoxicating ! linuorS:" the statement added. |