7161. Misbranding of Septicide.    TJ. S.    *    *    *   v. Septicide  Co., a corpora 
tion.    Plea   of   guilty.    Fine,   $300.     (F.   &   D.   No.   98G4.    I.   S.   Nos. 
11748-p, 11843-p.)
On August 20, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Septicide Co., a corporation, Milwaukee, Wis., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about 
March 28, 1918, and June 10, 1918, from the State of Wisconsin into the States 
of Michigan and Illinois, respectively, of quantities of an article, labeled in 
part " Septicide," which was misbranded.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the preparation consisted essentially of a dilute aqueous 
solution containing respectively 0.17 gram and 0.26 gram of sulphur dioxid 
in 100 cc.
It was
' alleged in substance in the information that the article was mis- 
branded for the reason that certain statements regarding the therapeutic and 
curative effects thereof, appearing on the labels of the bottles, falsely and 
fraudulently represented it as a preventive, treatment, remedy, and cure for 
old sores, scald head, sore nipples, milk leg, erysipelas, scrofula, face eruptions, 
eczema, and all skin diseases, cancer, wounds, burns and bruises, sore eyes, 
catarrh of the head, dyspepsia, catarrh of stomach, disorders of digestion, 
leucorrhoea, hemorrhoids, diphtheria, croup, bronchitis, coughs, quinsy and all 
throat diseases, la grippe and colds, diarrhoea, colic, dysentery or cholera 
morbus, and poison by ivy, diseases of the mouth, canker, dandruff and falling- 
out of hair, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On November 7, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $300.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.