79.39. Misbranding of Prescription lOOO Internal. U. S. * * * v. 45 Bot- 
tles of Prescription 1000 Internal. Default decree of condemna- 
tion, forfeiture, and destruction. (P. & D. No. 10644. I. S. No. 7675-r. 
S. No. C-1310.)
On June 23, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of Okla- 
homa, 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 con- 
demnation of .45 bottles of Prescription 1000 Internal, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging that the article 
had been shipped on or about May 1, 1919, by the Reese Chemical Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of Oklahoma, and 
charging that the article was misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, as amended.   The article was labeled in part, " Prescription 1000 Internal."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted of a slightly alkaline emulsion containing 
copaiba balsam and methyl salicylate.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that the statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects tliereof, 
Appearing on the labels and in tlie circulars accompanying the article, falsely 
and fraudulently represented that the article was a treatment, remedy, and 
cure for gieet and gonorrhoea, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On January 30, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that ihe product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BAIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,