10390. Misbranding of  Allen's   Ulcerine   salve.    TJ.   S.     *     *     *     v.   Charles
W.   Allen   (J.   P.   Allen   Medicine   Co.).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $1.
(F. & D. No. 11612.    I. S. No. 5546-r.)
On June 14, 1920, 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 an information against Charles W. Allen, 
trading as the J. P. Allen Medicine Co., St. Paul, Minn., alleging shipment by 
said defendant, in violation of the Pood and Drugs Act, as amended, on or 
about July 12, 1918, from the State of Minnesota into the State of Iowa, of a 
quantity of Allen's Ulcerine salve, which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed it to consist essentially of lead soap and linseed oil.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that certain statements, des;gns, and devices regarding the thera- 
peutic and curative effects thereof, appearing on the labels of the bottles con- 
taining the said article and in the accompanying wrappers and booklets, falsely 
and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a treatment of chronic ulcers, 
bone ulcers, scrofulous ulcers, varicose ulcers, indolent ulcers, syphilitic ulcers, 
mercurial ulcers, gangrene, white swelling, and all old sores of long standing, 
blood poisoning and lock-jaw from open wounds, boils, felons, carbuncles, 
abscesses, piles, salt rheum, burns, scalds, gun shot wounds, bites of animals, bites 
of reptiles, and all poisoned and ulcerated wounds, cuts, and all fresh wounds, 
milk leg, erysipelas, sprains, swollen joints, and all old sores of every name and 
kind, no matter of how many years standing, and as a treatment for bone con- 
sumption, old running sores of all kinds, and inflammatory rheumatism, when, 
in truth and in fact, it was not.
On December 13, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $1.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.