10026.?Misbranding'  of  DnBois   Pecific   pills.    IT.   S.     *     *      *     v.   11  Dozen
Boxes     *     *     *     of DnBois Pecific Pills.     Default decree ordering
destruction of the product. (F. & D. No. 14651. Inv. No. 26992. S. No.?
C-2882.)
On March 18, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota,?
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?
11 dozen boxes of DuBois Pecific pills, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
William J. Baumgartner, Detroit, Mich., on or about February.5, 1921, and?
transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Minnesota, 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 the pills contained aloes and iron sulphate and were?
coated with a mixture of sugar and calcium carbonate.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that the statement appearing in the circular accompanying the article, to wit,?
? * * * DuBois Pills which are purely vegetable * * *," was false and?
misleading, since the said article was not purely vegetable, and for the further?
reason that the following statements regarding the curative and therapeutic?
effects, appearing in the said circular, to wit, " * * * Reliable Female?
Tonic and Regulator. * * * for relieving general female disorders. Need??
less pain and suffering may be prevented by the use of DuBois Pills * * * A?
female tonic exerting helpful medicinal action over the female organs. * * *?
in the relieving of pain, due to leucorrhea, etc., and regulating the menses.
*?*    *    a  tonic for the female  organs    *    *    *    suppressed  menstruation,?
painful   menstruation,   inflammation   of   the   vagina  caused  by   anemia,   etc.
*?*    *    For    leucorrhea.    *    *    *    In    cases    of    menstrual    disturbances
*?*    *," were false and fraudulent, since the said article contained no ingre??
dient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed.
On October 28, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of the court was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United?
States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEZ, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.