The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent:(1) A physician from prescribing the use of alcoholic liquors when necessary for a bona fide patient;(2) A druggist from selling, upon a prescription properly issued by a physician, alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes;(3) A physician, dentist, or veterinarian, in the legitimate practice of his profession, from using and administering alcoholic liquors;(4) Hospitals, sanitariums, or that division of any institution which is regularly conducted as a hospital, dispensary or infirmary, from using or administering alcoholic liquors to bona fide patients. Institutions and the divisions thereof provided in this section may carry a stock of alcoholic liquors sufficient for this purpose;(5) Religious organizations from using wine for sacramental purposes.
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