7720.  Misbranding  of Prince's  Pills,  Prince's  Liniment,  and Dr.  Prince's
Trn-Visror Nerve  Tablets.    V.  S.    *    *    *   v. Boston Drug &  Chemi- 
cal Co., a Corporation.    Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, SJ525.     (F. &
D. No. 8S79.    I.  S. Nos. 2613-p, 2614-p, 2615-p.)
On October 10, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Boston Drug & Chemical Co., a corporation, Boston, Mass., alleging shipment 
by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or 
about August 27, 1917, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts into the State 
of Rhode Island, of quantities of articles, labeled in part " Prince's Pills," 
" Prince's Liniment," and " Dr. Prince's Tru-Vigor Nerve Tablets," which were 
misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of Prince's Pills by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the article was a pill composed largely or wholly of 
rhubarb and aloes, coated with a mixture of calcium carbonate, starch, and 
sugar, and colored with amaranth.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information in 
that the statements, designs, and devices in the circular accompanying the 
article, regarding the therapeutic effects of the article, were false and fraudu- 
lent, in this, that by means of the said circular, they were applied to said article 
knowingly and in reckless and wanton disregard of their truth or falsity, so 
as to represent falsely and fraudulently to purchasers thereof, and create in 
the minds of purchasers thereof, the impression and belief that the article was 
in whole or in part composed of, or contained, ingredients or medicinal agents 
effective, among other things, as a remedy, treatment, and cure for suppressed, 
delayed, scanty, painful, and irregular menstruation, and effective to produce a 
miscarriage, when, in truth and in fact, said article was not in whole or in part 
composed of, and did not contain, ingredients or medicinal agents effective, 
among other things, as a remedy, treatment, or cure as claimed by the state- 
ments for the article.
Analysis of a sample of Prince's Liniment by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this department showed that the article was a liniment containing ammonia, 
camphor, turpentine oil, and a small percentage of alcohol.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information in that the state- 
ments on the wrapper enclosing, and on the labels of the bottles containing the 
article, regarding the therapeutic and curative effects of the article, were false 
and fraudulent, in this, that the same were applied to said article knowingly 
and in reckless and wanton disregard of their truth or falsity, so as to represent 
falsely and fraudulently to purchasers thereof, and create in the minds of pur- 
chasers thereof, the impression and belief that the article was in whole or In 
part composed of, or contained, ingredients or medicinal agents effective, among 
other things, as a remedy, treatment, and cure for all pain, rheumatism, neu- 
ralgia, diphtheria, sore Ihroat, asthma, sciatica, bronchitis, erysipelas, salt 
rheum, numbness of the limbs, spasms of the stomach and bowels, all internal 
and external pains, corns, warts, calloused flesh, piles, fistula, headache, earache, 
and inflammation, when, in truth and in fact, said article was not in whole or in 
part composed of, and did not coutain, ingredients or medicinal medicines effect- 
ive, among other things, as a remedy, treatment, or cure, as claimed by the
statements for the article. Misbranding was further alleged in the information 
in that the statement, to wit, " Prince's Liniment. It is a combination of cam- 
phor, wintergreen, capsicum, etc.," borne on the circular aforesaid, regarding 
the article and the ingredients and substances contained therein, was false and 
misleading, in this, that it represented that said article contained wintergreen 
and capsicum, whereas, in truth and in fact, said article contained no winter- 
green or capsicum.
Analysis of a sample of Dr. Prince's Tru-Vigor Nerve Tablets by the Bureau 
of Chemistry of this department showed that they consisted essentially of 
strychnine and a greenish, acid resin probably from damiana.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information in that the state- 
ments on the labels on the boxes containing, and in the circular accompanying 
the article, regarding the therapeutic and curative effects of the article, were 
false and fraudulent, in this, that the same were applied to said article know- 
ingly, and in reckless and wanton disregard of their truth or falsity, so as to 
represent falsely and fraudulently to purchasers thereof, and create in the 
minds of purchasers thereof, the impression and belief that the article was in 
whole or in part composed of, or contained, ingredients or medicinal agents 
effective, among other things, as a remedy, treatment, and cure for weakness, 
nervousness, loss of manhood, sleeplessness, despondency, nervous and sick 
headache, and all forms of mental and physical debility, all nervous diseases, 
self abuse, abuse of alcohol or tobacco, overwork, mental or bodily exhaustion, 
hysteria, impotency, abnormal discharges, diseases of the prostate gland, and 
weakness or lack of energy in the generative organs, when, in truth and in fact, 
said article was not in whole or in part composed of, and did not contain ingre- 
dients or medicinal agents effective, among other things, as a remedy, treatment, 
or cure, as claimed by the statements for the article, and that the article was 
in whole or in part possessed of, or contained, ingredients or medicinal agents 
effective, among other things, as a remedy, treatment, or cure for varicocele, 
loss of power, emissions, failing memory, paresis, and all evil effects arising 
from indiscretions from most any cause, and effective as a preventive of in- 
sanity, when, in tiuth and in fact, said article was not in whole or in part com- 
posed of, and did not contain, ingredients or medicinal agents effective, among 
other things, as a remedy, treatment or cure, as claimed by the statements for 
the article.
On October 14, 1919, the defendant company entered a plea of nolo con- 
tendere to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agricultnrc.