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...past (1917-18) president of the American Medical Association, Professor Arthur Dean Bevan of the University of Chicago, recently told a subcommittee of the U. S. Senate that a great many doctors sign their liquor prescriptions in blank and sell them to druggists. That gives the druggists legal security to sell whiskey to any customer. If the doctor is called to account he dare not deny his complicity, sometimes goes to jail...
...medical economics of the situation incensed Professor Bevan: "Any rich man in Chicago today can buy a case, that is 24 pints, of whiskey at the corner drugstore for from $150 to $165 a case. That is made possible by three factors, the bootlegging druggist, the bootlegging doctor and the bootlegger. The druggist buys it at about $40 a case. One doctor or several doctors furnish the prescriptions at $3 apiece or a total of $72. That makes $112. The bootlegger and the druggist split the rest...
...Bevan was of the opinion that nine out of ten liquor prescriptions are bootlegged. In Connecticut, he had heard that 99.9% of the 2,000 doctors "take out [liquor] prescription books and write prescriptions...
...eminent Dr. Bevan a telltale, fussbudget, or ignoramus? By last week U. S. Medicine had not decided. But there was much squawking...
Arthur Dean Bevan, 68, of Chicago, "distinguished teacher of anatomy and surgery''; born, Chicago; degree from Rush Medical College 1883; president...