The provisions of this subchapter shall not prevent:
(A) A physician from prescribing the use of alcoholic liquors when necessary for a bona fide patient;
(B) A druggist from selling, upon a prescription properly issued by a physician, alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes;
(C) A physician, dentist or veterinarian, in the legitimate practice of his or her profession, from using and administering alcoholic liquors;
(D) 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; and
(E) Religious organizations from using wine for sacramental purposes.
(W. Va. Code 60-6-5) (Prior Code, § 521.02)