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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4590, 25 July 1923, Page 1

What must be described as a dangerous practice is in use amongst a certain section of the community—namely, tile transference of medical prescriptions from a patient to a friend. A few days ago (relates the Gisborne Times) a well-known chemist was handed a prescription, containing a deadly drug in . common use. The prescription was made up for an adult, and the chemist wrote the directions as usual on the label. An hour or two later he was called to the telephone,, and asked if a child was to take the same dose as he had written. He hurriedly •answered in the negative, and had the bottle returned to him. It was then ascertained that the woman who had handed in the prescription had received it from a friend who had consulted a medical man. The woman’s child was suffering apparently in the same way, and to avoid a visit to the doctor she had in good faith obtained her friend’s prescription. But for her forethought, in questioning the size of the dose it is probable a medical man would have been hurriedly called in, and the subsequent expense would have paid for many visits to the doctor. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.