10173.?Misbranding:   of Dr.  LeGear's   hog   prescription.     U.   S.     *      *      *     v.
260 Cartons of Dr. LeGear's Hog: Prescription.     Default decree  of
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 11912,?
11913, 11914, 11915, 11916, 11917, 11918. I. S. Nos. 633-r, 634~r, 635-r,?
636-r, 637-r, 638-r, 639-r. S. Nos. E-1952, E^-1953, EKL954, E-1955, E-195'6,?
E-1957, E-1958.)
On February 9, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
South Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 260 cartons of Dr. LeGear's hog prescription, at Newberry,?
Chappells, Kinards, Clinton, and Cross Hill, S. C, respectively, alleging that?
the article had been shipped by the Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Co., St. Louis,?
Mo., between the elates December 13 and 17, 1919, and transported from the?
State of Missouri into the State of South Carolina, 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 magnesium sulphate, iron sul??
phate, sodium chlorid, charcoal, American wormseed, quassia, and ground vege??
table material.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that the label on each of the cartons containing the said article bore the follow??
ing medicinal claims, " Dr. LeGear's Hog Prescription. The Worm Expeller?
* * * Good for many cases of so-called Cftolera in Hogs, such as Diarrhoea,?
Bowel Troubles, Kidney Worms, etc. Guaranteed + * * Directions * * *?
For Diarrhoea, Dysentery and other Bowel Troubles resembling Chol??
era * * * Manufactured Only By Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Co. St. Louis,?
Mo.," which said medicinal claims were false, fraudulent, and misleading.
On September 2, 1921, 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.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.