7454.?Misbranding;  of  Santal  Midy.     U.  S.    *    *    *    v.  420 Bottles   of    *    *    *
Santal Midy. Default decree of condemnation, foi-feiture, and?
destrnction. (F. & D. Nos. 10645, 10732. I. S. Nos. 2801-r, 2802-r. S.?
Nos.  W-426, W-427.)
On or about June 21, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of?
Colorado, 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 420 bottles of Santal Midy, consigned by E. Fougera & Co.,?
New York, N. Y., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at?
Denver, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about September?
28, 1918, March 10, 1919, and May 1, 1919, and transported from the State of?
New York into the State of Colorado, and charging misbranding in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article was labeled in part:?
" Santal Midy * * * , Essential oil of Sandalwood * * * prepared by?
Midy's process from freshly-felled Mysore sandalwood * * * there has?
been proved the value of this drug in the treatment of gonorrhea, gleet and?
discharges from the urinary organs    *    *    *."
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it consisted essentially of santal oil.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the?
reason that certain statements borne on the circular wrapped with and accom??
panying each bottle, regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the?
article as a treatment for gonorrhoea, gleet, discharges of the urinary organs,?
inflammation of the bladder, suppurative nephritis, catarrli of "the bladder,?
vesical catarrh of old age, and certain other diseases, were false and fraudulent,?
and were calculated to deceive and mislead the purchaser, in that the article?
contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing any?
of the curative or therapeutic effects claimed for it-    *
On July 22, 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.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.