8035. Misbranding of Vegetable Blood Purifier. U. S. * * * v. 4 Dozen.?
Packages of Vegetable Blood Purifier, Default decree of condem??
nation, forfeiture, and destruction. (P. & D. No. 10628. I. S. No.?
15013-r.     S.  No.   E-1556.)
On or about June 20, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of?
Delaware, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying for the?
seizure and condemnation of 4 dozen packages of Vegetable Blood Purifier,?
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Wilmington, Del.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about May 17, 1919, by Gibson-?
Howell Go., Jersey City, N. J., and transported from the State of New Jersey?
into the State of Delaware, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food,?
and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted essentially of a solution of magnesium?
sulphate, plant extractives including a laxative drug, and sugar, in glycerin,?
water, and 8.5 per cent by volume of alcohol.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel in that cer??
tain statements regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the article, on?
the label on the bottle containing, and on the wrapper inclosing the article,?
falsely and fraudulently represented the article to be a blood purifier and?
effective as a remedy for eruptive skin diseases, syphilitic affections, salt vheum,?
ringworm, boils, pimples, ulcers, rheumatism, and all diseases arising from an?
imperfect state of the blood, to renovate the whole system and restore normal?
vigor and healthy action to every organ, to relieve scrofula, cancerous or in-
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dolent tumors, erysipelas, catarrh, and all disorders due to a depraved condi??
tion of the blood, scrofulous diseases in all the various forms, such as king's?
-evil, white swelling, chronic rheumatism, cancer, diseases of the skin and?
spine, diseases of "the heart, tetter, jaundice, dyspepsia, neuralgia, sore eyes,?
sore nose, and dropsy, to aid nature to remove the humors and poison in the?
liver, kidneys, bowels, lungs, and skin, to vitalize and enrich, as well as purify?
and renovate, the blood, tone the nervous system, strengthen the digestive or??
gans, creating an appetite, and to impart to all functions of the body new life and?
energy, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not effective for the purposes?
named.
On January 13, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.