NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1019.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING OF DK. Moffett TEETHINA.
On January 31, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon the report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed information in the District Court of the United 
States against T. N. Flourney, St. Louis, Mo., doing business under 
the name of C. J. Moffett Medicine Co., charging shipment by him, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about October 25, 1909, 
from the State of Missouri into the State of Tennessee, of a package 
or carton containing a dozen boxes of the product called " Dr. Mof- 
fett's Teething," which was misbranded. The labels and brands on 
the package or carton containing said product and the circulars en- 
closed therewith represented that the product " aids digestion, heals 
eruptions and sores, will stop and prevent the tendency to colic," and 
that " Teethina has saved the lives of thousands of children in the 
Doctor's native state where physicians prescribe it and all mothers 
give it," and that " Teethina's speedy removal of sores and eruptions 
upon the skin have been remarkable." The labels further represented 
that there is "nothing like it to remove and prevent the accumulation 
of worms in children;" that it is " an effectual remedy for cholera- 
infantum, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera-morbus, colic, thrush, hives, 
eruptions and sores on the skin;" and that it "strengthens the child 
and makes teething easy."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry showed the product to be a 
powder consisting essentially of opium, calomel, calcium carbonate, 
and powdered cinnamon. Misbranding was therefore charged for the 
reason that the labels on the packages bore statements regarding the 
ingredients or the substances therein which statements were false 
and misleading and calculated to deceive the purchaser by reason of 
the facts that the product did not possess power to aid digestion; nor 
sufficient medicinal value to heal eruptions and sores; nor the power
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to prevent the tendency to colic; nor could it speedily remove sores 
and eruptions upon the skin; nor was the statement that the product 
had saved the lives of thousands of children true; nor was the article 
an efficient remedy to remove and prevent the accumulation of worms 
in children; nor an effectual remedy for cholera-infantum, diarrhoea, 
dysentery, cholera-morbus, colic, thrush, hives, eruptions and sores 
on the skin; nor did it possess such powers and properties as will 
strengthen the child and make teething easy.
On April 14, 1911, the defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined $10 
and costs, which he paid.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 5,1911.
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JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.