Primary chains now establish the permitted physician–pharmacist record system, the 1921 quantity and prescription-blank limits, and Doran’s 1930 manufacturing-allotment snapshot. Earlier secondary citations supply bonded-stock, packaging, custody, and distribution context.
English — EXT-526 — PDF sheet 230Cowdery — Bourbon, Straight — Chapter 6, “Haydens, Wathens and Old Grand-Dad”Spoelman and Haskell — Dead Distillers — PDF sheets 168–171Hannush — six medicinal licenses mythH. Rept. 17 (1933), p. 6 — physician permits and prescription controlsH. Rept. 17 (1933), p. 7 — 1921 medicinal-liquor prescription limitsCongressional Record, January 23, 1930, p. 2235 — Doran medicinal-whiskey allotmentsLegal medicinal whiskey during Prohibition depended on bonded stocks, licensed production, physicians, pharmacists, prescriptions, packaging rules, quantity limits, and replenishment authority rather than functioning solely as an informal consumer loophole.
Promotion gate satisfied: complete primary federal sources verify prescription controls and the Doran-era replenishment snapshot. The common fixed-six-distilleries formulation is rejected.
The system changed over time. The January 1930 list is a dated snapshot of eleven concentration warehousemen, distillers, or successors and must not be converted into a permanent roster of six Kentucky distilleries. The 2,000,000-gallon/40,000-barrel figure is an allotment basis, not proof of completed output.
English's account explicitly links inventory, custody, production authorization, professional prescribers and dispensers, packaging, and patients.
The infrastructure interpretation is supported by independent secondary analysis plus exact primary-law and administrative anchors. Publication copy should separate statutory rules, industry custody, and the January 1930 snapshot.
Prescription whiskey formed a controlled Prohibition supply chainCowdery — Prohibition consolidation and brand transfer — Chapter 6, “Haydens, Wathens and Old Grand-Dad”Spoelman and Haskell — Dead Distillers — PDF sheets 168–171 — Remus and bonded-warehouse infrastructureThe six medicinal licenses were neither all Kentucky nor permanently fixedOnly a permitted physician could prescribe medicinal liquorPhysicians and pharmacists kept controlled prescription recordsThe 1921 act limited medicinal-liquor quantities and prescription blanksDoran named eleven medicinal-whiskey allotment recipientsDoran reported a 2,000,000-gallon allotment basis