7786. Misbranding: of Madame Dean Suppositories. IT. S. * * * v. SO Boxes 
* * * Madame Dean Antiseptic "Vaginal Suppositories, Default 
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. ?& D. No.
11194.    I. S. No. 8328-r,    S. No. C-1453.)
On September 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States lor said district a libel lor the seizure .and 
condemnation of SO boxes of Madame Dean Suppositories, remaining unsold in 
the original unbroken packages at Cincinnati, Ohio, consigned on or about 
April 21, 1919, by Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa., and transported Irom the State 
of Pennsylvania into the State of Ohio, and charging misbranding under the 
Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the suppositories by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that they consisted essentially of cacao butter containing 
a salt of bismuth, alum, boric acid, tannin, and a small amount of unidentified 
plant tissue.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that the statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects 
thereof, appearing on the labels and in the circular accompanying the article, 
falsely and fraudulently represented that the article was a treatment, remedy, 
and cure for the relief of leucorrhcea or wriites, gonorrhoea, inflammation, con- 
gestion, ulceration, and similar female complaints, vaginitis, vulvitis, gon- 
orrhoea! inflammation, leucorrhoeal discharge, and similar female complaints, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not.
?On March 10, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, a default 
decree 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.