As Amended
SEC. 97-31-39. Sale of alcohol by druggists; medicinal purposes; physician's certificate.
No sale of pure alcohol for medicinal purposes shall be made except upon the written prescription of a licensed
and practicing physician of this state, who, before writing such prescription shall have made an actual examination
of the patient for whom the prescription is issued, which prescription shall be dated and signed by the physician
and shall be in substantially the following form:
physician under the laws of this state, do hereby certify that I have examined
____ a patient in my charge, and hereby prescribe for the use of said patient ____
of pure alcohol, and I certify that the use thereof is necessary to alleviate or
cure the illness or disease from which such patient is suffering. Dated ____"
_____________________, M. D.
more than half a pint of alcohol shall be furnished on any one prescription, and when such prescription is filled it
shall not be refilled, but shall be delivered to the druggist filling the same, and at the end of the month in which the
same is filed shall be filed by such druggist in the office of the circuit clerk of the county. In towns having a
population of 1,000 or more the physician's prescription shall not be filled at any drug store of which he is the
proprietor, or in which he has a financial interest, either as partner, stockholder, or otherwise.
Any person purchasing alcohol for any purpose set out in this section, for which a prescription is not required
herein, shall first sign a written or printed statement properly dated and deliver the same to the druggist, stating his
name, residence and occupation, and the purpose for which he intends to use said alcohol.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2115; 1930, Sec. 1996; 1942, Sec. 2635; Laws, 1908, ch. 113.