7143. Misbranding of LieMg's Diarrlicea CordiaJ. TT. S. ' * * * v., Parker- 
Blake Co., Ltd., a corporation. Pica of guilty. Fine, $10. <fi\ & D. 
No. 9783.    I.  S. No.  6124-r.) 
On June 16, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, 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 
Parker-Blake Co., Ltd., a corporation, New Orleans, La., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about 
July 3, 1918, from the State of Louisiana into the State of Mississippi, of a 
quantity of an article, labeled in part " Liebig's Diarrhoea Cordial," which was 
misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed it to contain :k grain of morphine sulphate per fluid ounce .and 
?6.27 per cent of alcohol by volume, and to consist essentially of a solution 
of morphine sulphate, catechu, tannin, oil of cassia, oil of peppermint, sugar, 
alcohol, and water.
It was alleged in substance that the article was misbranded for the reason 
?that certain statements appearing on the labels of the bottles and cartons 
falsely and fraudulently represented it as a remedy for cholera and dysentery, 
when, in truth and in fact, it was not. Misbranding of the article was alleged 
for the further reason that the statement, to wit, " It may be taken with perfect 
safety by infants while teething," borne on the carton containing the said 
.article, .regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained 
therein, was false and misleading in that it represented that the said article 
could be taken with perfect safety by infante while teething without injury to 
health, whereas, in truth and in fact, said article contained a poisonous in- 
gredient, to wit, morphine sulphate, which could not be administered with 
perfect safety to infants while teething, or at any time, without injury to health.
On June-16, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty, and the 
eourt imposed a fine of $10.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.