7:)2,'J. aiisl>i-fiii?liii?- of SalvjHsie. I:. S. * * * v. THo. American Apothe- 
caries Co. Plea of guilt}-. Fine, $208. (F. & D. No. 9788. I. S. No. 
17002-r.)
On July 17, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New 
York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of tho United States for said district an information against The American 
Apothecaries Co., a corporation, Astoria, N. Y., alleging shipment by said com- 
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs* Act, as amended, on May 25, 1918, 
from the State of New York into the Island of Porto Itico, of a quantity of an 
article, labeled in part " Salvitae," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that it consisted essentially of citric and tartaric acids with sul- 
phates, carbonates or bicarbonates, and phosphates of magnesium, sodium, 
potassium, and lithium, and a trace of hexamethylenetetramine.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the ai'ticle was mis- 
branded for the reason that certain statements, appearing on the labels of the 
bottles containing the article and on the wrapper around said bottles, falsely 
and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure 
for gout, rheumatism, Bright's disease, Riggs' disease, stomatitis, recession of 
the gums, urethritis, cystitis, gravel, inflammatory affections of the urinary 
passages and diseases that are produced by uric acid, inactivity of the kidneys, 
renal or hepatic calculi or incontinence and gingivitis, as a uric acid solvent, 
urinary antiseptic and diuretic and intestinal antiseptic, to fortify the system 
against the millions of dangerous microbes, and to restore lost health and pre- 
serve one from disease, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On November 12, 1919, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $200.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.