7627.  Misbranding;   of   La   Sanadora.   IT.    S.   *    *    *   v.   Felipe   B.   Romero 
(Romero Drug Co.).     Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D.
No. 8980.    I. S. No. 22456-m.)
On November 21, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Felipe 
B. Romero, trading as Romero Drug Co., El Paso, Tex., alleging shipment by 
said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about 
May 29, 1917, from the State of Texas into the State of California, of a quantity 
of an article, labeled in part " La Sanadora," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed that the article consisted essentially of a hydro-alcoholic solution of 
opium, containing a small amount of caffeine, ammonia, and capsicum, and 
flavored with oil of peppermint.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was misbranded 
for the reason that certain statements appearing on the labels of the bottles 
containing, and on the cartons enclosing the article, regarding the article, 
falsely and fraudulently represented it as a remedy, treatment, and cure for 
rheumatism, sprains, sore throat, coughs, colds, pustules, contraction of the 
tendons and muscles, stiffness of the joints, pain in the back and chest, lumbago, 
inflammation of the kidneys, neuralgia, fissured breasts, burns, earache, catarrh, 
fevers, chills, colic, cholera, piles, all painful afflictions, and itch, when, in truth 
and in fact, it was not. It was alleged in substance that the article was mis- 
branded for the further reason that certain statements regarding the article, in 
the circular accompanying the article, falsely and fraudulently represented it 
as a remedy, treatment, aad cure for itch, bronchitis, dysentery, croup, wounds, 
diphtheria, malaria, scalds, tonsilitis, la grippe, indigestion, sour stomach, 
dyspepsia, sciatica, whooping cough, painful disorders of women, retention of
urine, felons, wetting the bed, muscular rheumatism, diseases of the skin, 
abscesses, ulcers, cavities with pus, after-pains, vomiting, and white flooding or 
white flowers, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On December 15, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.