72S1. Misbrandins of Knoxit Globules. TJ. S. * * * v. 1 Gross Bottles 
of Knoxit Globules. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, 
and destruction.    (P. & D. No. 10375.    I. S. No. 14899-r.    S. No. B-1459.)
On May 26, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1 gross bottles of Knoxit Globules, consigned by the Beggs 
Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at 
Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about June 
21, 1918, and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as 
amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted essentially of balsam of copaiba and oil 
of cassia.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that the label and circular contained certain statements, regarding the 
curative and therapeutic effects of the article and the ingredients or substances 
contained therein, which were false and fraudulent in that the article would 
not produce the curative or therapeutic effects which purchasers were led to 
expect by those statements in the treatment or cure of cystitis, inflammation 
of the HKicous membranes, gonorrhoea, and blennorrhcea, having at the same 
time an action soothing and efficacious upon the kidneys and bladder, and 
?which statements were applied to the article with a knowledge of their falsity 
for the purpose of defrauding the purchasers thereof.
On June 16, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.