.96.  Misbranding of Dr. LeGear's Hog Prescription.    V. S.     *     *     *     v. 75
Cases * * * 221 Pails * * * and 22 Drums * * * of Dr.?
LeGear's Hogr Prescription. Consent decree of condemnation and?
forfeiture. Product released on bond. CF. & D. No. 11901. I. S. No.?
8257-r.     S. No. W-568.)
On January 27, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
California, 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?
condemnation of 75 cases, each containing 12 packages of 3f pounds, 221 pails,?
each containing 25 pounds, and 22 drums, each containing 100 pounds, of Dr.?
LeGear's Hog Prescription, remaining in the original unbroken packages, at?
San Francisco, Calif... consigned by the Dr. LeGear Medicine Co., part from?
Luther, Mo., March
28, 1919, and part from St. Louis, Mo., July 30, 1919, alleg??
ing that the article had been transported from the State of Missouri into the?
State of California, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and.
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BUREAU  OF  CHEMISTRY.	
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Drugs Act, as amended.   The article was labeled in part, " Dr. LeGear's Hog?
Prescription."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted of a mixture composed essentially of mag??
nesium sulphate, ferrous sulphate, sodium chlorid, charcoal, American worm??
wood seed, and mill screenings.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the?
following statements on the carton label regarding the curative and thera??
peutic effects thereof were false and fraudulent, as the article contained no in??
gredients capable of producing the effects claimed: "The Worm .Expel U-r?
* * * Good for many cases of so-called Cholera in Hogs, such as Diarrhoea,?
Bowel Troubles, Kidney Worms, etc. For Diarrhoea, Dysentery and other?
Bowel Troubles resembling Cholera * * * For Kidney Worms of Paralysis?
To prevent disease."
On March 16, 1920, the Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Co., claimant, having con??
sented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and?
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said claimant upon?
payment of the costs of the proceeding and the execution of a bond in the sum?
of $2,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALI,, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.