7155. Misbran-ding   of   Dr.   Cteorge   HoIIabwsh's   Cure   for   Abortion.    XT.   S.
*    *    *   v. <Seorg-e H<oilabnsh.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100 and costs.
(F & D. No. 9976.    I. S. No. 12652-p.)
On July 18, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of Wis- 
consin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against George
Hollabush, Fort Atkinson, Wis., alleging shipment by said defendant, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about February 13, 1918, from 
the State of Wisconsin into the State of South Dakota, of a quantity of an 
article, labeled in part " Dr. George HoUabush's Cure for Abortion," which was 
misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed it to consist of a gray coarsely ground mixture containing chiefly 
sulphur, iron sulphate, saltpetre, oil meal, and a strychnine-bearing drug, prob- 
ably nux vomica.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was misbranded 
for the reason that certain statements appearing on the labels of the packages 
falsely and fraudulently represented it as a cure.for abortion in cows and mares, 
as a genuine cure for abortion in cows and mares, and as a preventive of abortion, 
and as a cure for barrenness in cows and mares, when, in truth and in fact, it 
was not.
On August 2, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.