9033.   Misbranding of E.  & I. Treatment.   IT. S.   *   *   *   v. 30 Cartons of E. & I. Treat- 
ment.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No.
11471.    I. S. No. lolie-r.   S. No. E-1821.)
On October 10, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsyl- 
vania, 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 30 
cartons of E. & I. Treatment, consigned by the Henry S. Wampole Co., Baltimore, 
Md., remaining in the original unbroken packages at Pottsville, Pa., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about May 17, 1919, and transported from the State of 
Maryland into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging 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 department 
showed that it consisted of two preparations, capsules for internal use and a liquid for 
injection. The contents of the capsules consisted essentially of cubebs, copaiba 
balsam, alum, and magnesia, and the liquid consisted essentially of zinc chlorid, 
glycerin, water, and a red coloring matter.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the product was misbranded for the 
reason that the circular accompanying it contained the following statements regarding 
the curative or therapeutic effects of said article and the ingredients or substances 
contained therein, "Self-Help External & Internal Treatment For the Relief and 
Prevention of Gonorrhoea (Clap), Blenorrhoea (Gleet), Leucorrhoea (Whites), and 
allied forms of Acute and Inflammatory Mucous Discharges from the Urethra (Urine 
Canal). * * * There may, however, be cases of Gonorrhoea Sicca, or dry clap, 
in which there is no discharge. * * * For females the External treatment should 
alone be used as a vaginal injection *' * '* -If attended with idceratidn at the 
orifice of the vagina, apply pledgets of lint wet with the External treatment. Leu- 
corrhoea or Whites. For Leucorrhoea or Whites use the External treatment as an 
injection, * * *," which were false and fraudulent in that said article would not 
produce the curative or therapeutic effects which purchasers are led to expect by said 
statements, which were applied to said article with a knowledge of their falsity for 
the purpose of defrauding purchasers thereof.
On November 10, 1919, 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.