SOOS. Mislsraiicling ?? Simpson's Vegetable CGiiipo-uia.il and. Iodide of Potas??
sium. IJ. S. * * * "*'. 2 13ozen Bottles, More or Less, of ? Certain?
I>nig', Siniisson's "Vegetable Coisiponwl aiul Iodide of Potassium.?
EJefsrali    decree    of    contS emulation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 12541.     I. S. No.  8279-r.     S. No,  C-1877.)
On April 9, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District?
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in?
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying?
for the seizure and condemnation of a certain article of drug, labeled in part?
" Simpson's Vegetable Compound and Iodide of Potassium," remaining unsold?
in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had?
been shipped on August 22, 1919, by Dr. A. B. Simpson Co., Richmond, Ind.,?
and transported from the State of Ind'ana into the State of Illinois, and charg??
ing misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted essentially of a potassium iodid, unidentified?
plant extractives, sugar, alcohol, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel in that certain statements?
regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the article on the label on the?
bottles containing, on the carton enclosing, and in the circular accompanying?
the article, falsely and fraudulently represented the article to be effective for?
all diseases depending on a depraved condition of the blood, scrofula, scrofulous?
diseases of the eyes, or scrofula in any form, and erysipelas, old sores, boils,?
ulcers, pimples, blotches, and any diseases or eruption of the skin, rheumatism?
and pain in the limbs, bones, etc., scald head, salt rheum, tetter, long-standing?
diseases of the liver, catarrhal affections of all kinds, syphilis in all its forms?
or the diseases that it entails, scrofula, old sores, boils, ulcers, inflamed eyes,?
pimples, blotches, inflammatory rheumatism, * *
' * blood poisoning, in??
flamed eyes, eruptions, contagious blood poison (syphilis) * * * eczema,?
* * *," whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not effective for the diseases?
and disorders named.
On May 4, 1920, 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.
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