10220.?Misbranding    of   DuBois   Peciflc   pills. ' TJ.    S.     *      *      *     v.    137   Boxes
* * * of DuBois Pacific (Pecific) Pills. Default decree of con??
demnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 14649. Inv. No.?
26991.    S. No. C-2880.)
On March 17, 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 137 boxes of DuBois Pacific (Peciflc) pills, remaining in the original un??
broken packages at St. Paul, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by William A. Baumgartner, Detroit, Mich., on or about February 26, 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 consisted essentially of aloes and ferrous sul??
phate, coated with calcium carbonate and sugar.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the?
reason that the following statements regarding the curative and therapeutic?
effect of the said article, (circular) " * * * Reliable Female Tonic and?
Regulator. * * * for relieving general female disorders. Needless 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 men??
struation, 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. ingredient or combination?
of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed; and for the further?
reason that the statement in the said circular, " DuBois Pills which are purely?
vegetable," was false and misleading, since the product was not purely vege??
table.
On December 15, 1921, 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.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.