3158. Misbranding of Pol-Izer. U. S. v. Otto W. Dressier (Gold Seal Labora-
tories). Plea of not guilty. Tried to the court. Verdict of guilty.
Fine, $100.    (F. D. C. No. 26691. Sample No. 43462-K.)
INFORMATION FILED: April 23, 1949, District of Minnesota, against Otto W.
Dressier, trading as the Gold Seal Laboratories, Minneapolis, Minn.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about September 8, 1948, from the State of Minne-
sota into the State of Indiana.
PRODUCT: Examination disclosed that the product was a device consisting of
mercury sealed in a glass bulb which was cemented to a metal cylinder. When
the device was swirled, it generated a weak electrostatic charge.
NATURE OF CHARGE:   Misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements in the
circulars entitled "The Pol-Izer (Miracle of the Age) Why Suffer" and "Pol-
Izer   Miracle of the Age   The Results from its Use are Miraculous," which
circulars accompanied the device, were false and misleading since the device
would not be efficacious for the purposes represented and would not fulfill the
promises of benefit stated and implied.   The statements represented and sug-
gested that the device would be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, and treat-
ment of arthritis, sinusitis, eczema, constipation, hay fever, ulcers, diabetes,
asthma, and anemia; that it would tend to normalize any part of the body which
it contacted; that it would be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, and treatment
of adhesion pains, arthritis pains, athlete's foot, high blood pressure, low blood
pressure, head colds, indigestion, insomnia (nervousness), lumbago, migraine
headaches, nervous stomach, bruises, burns, catarrh, colitis, cuts, dandruff,
encephalitis (sleeping sickness), enuresis (bed wetting), falling hair, gastritis,
goiters, fast heart, slow heart, leaky heart, strained heart, weak heart, angina
pectoris, neuralgia, neurasthenia, neuritis, prostate gland trouble, rheumatism,
scalds, sciatica, shaking palsy, sinus trouble, stomach gas, stomach ulcers, stut-
tering, toxemia, varicose veins, many additional ailments, and functional nu-
tritional diseases; that the device would be efficacious in controlling the ner-
vous, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, secretory, and excretory systems; that
it would be efficacious as a regulator of functions and distributor of harmony;
that it would be successful in improving nervous stomach, asthma, and diabetes;
that constipation not due to intestinal obstruction could be controlled easily
through use of the device, and that many other functional ailments could be re-
lieved ; that the five senses, seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling, would
be made keener by drinking water treated with the device; that the device
would change the oxygen in water into ozone; that water treated with the
device would be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, and treatment of stomach
ulcers, gastritis, colitis, inflamed bladder, inflamed kidneys, sinusitis, and
many other ailments of an inflammatory nature; that water treated with the
device was a germicide and would kill many kinds of bacteria and germs,
including the dandruff germ, as well as the fungi that causes athlete's foot;
that water treated with the device would make an excellent remedy for hay
fever, head colds, sinusitis, catarrh, and coughs; that use of water treated with
the device would soothe the sores and stop the itching of eczema; that the
device would make hard water soft; that it would remove the caffeine bitter-
ness from coffee and the theine bitterness from tea; that it would greatly enrich
the flavor of milk and would affect the taste of all beverages; that it would
be efficacious for the relief of ailments that could not be relieved by a doctor,
chiropractor, or osteopathic physician; that it would be efficacious in the treat-
ment of many so-called incurable ailments; that it would relieve pains, mi-
graine headaches, and neuritic pains; that water treated with the device would
be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, and treatment of a nervous stomach, and
in the prevention of diseases, including colds; that water treated with the
device would tend to normalize the digestive organs and enable the organs to
extract more nourishment, especially the various vitamins and minerals, from
food; that water treated with the device would enable the body to assimilate
more vitamin A from food and thereby build resistance to infections, increase
vitality, and improve eyesight; that water treated with the device would have
a salutary effect upon the nervous system and would enable the body to absorb
more vitamin Bt from the food, resulting in a more invigorated feeling, better
appetite, and the relief of many nervous disorders; that liquids treated with
the device would enable one to make use of, and benefit from, the vitamins in
?food to a much greater extent; that the device when used in conjunction with
water treated with the device, would be efficacious for the alleviation of pains,
the correction of varicose veins, and the removal of goiters; that water treated
with the device would be efficacious in overcoming food allergy and would im-
prove one's digestive organs; that the device when used in conjunction with
water treated with the device, would be efficacious in the cure, mitigation, and
treatment of adhesion pains, anemia, arthritis pains, asthma, blood pressure,
bruises, burns, catarrh, colitis, constipation not due to intestinal obstruction,
cuts, diabetes, eczema, enuresis (bed wetting), gastritis, goiters, hay fever, head
colds, indigestion, insomnia due to nervousness, migraine headaches, neuralgia,
neuritis, neurasthenia, nerve pains due to amputation, nervous stomach (neu-
roses of stomach), rheumatism, scalds, sciatica caused by poisons in the system,
sinusitis, stomach gas, stomach ulcers, tonsillitis, toxemia, and varicose veins;
and that water treated with the device would be efficacious in the cure, miti-
gation, and treatment of athlete's foot, dandruff, and falling hair; and that the
device when used in conjunction with water treated with the device, would be
efficacious in the treatment of shaking palsy.
DISPOSITION : A plea of not guilty having been entered, the case came up for
trial before the court on December 29, 1949. The trial was concluded on De-
cember 31, 1949, and the defendant was found guilty. On June 6, 1950, the
court imposed a fine of $100.
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