10690. Misbranding of Paulette's Brand tansy, cotton root, pennyroyal?
and apiol tablets. TJ. S. * * * v. 1 Dozen Packages and 11?
Packages of Panlette's Brand Tansy, Cotton Root, Pennyroyal?
and Apiol Tablets. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture,?
and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 13802, 13803. I. S. Nos. 7521-t, 7522-t.?
S.  Nos. E-2838,  E-2839.)
On October 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Con??
necticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district libel's for the seizure and?
condemnation of 1 dozen packages and 11 packages of Paulette's Brand tansy,?
cotton root, pennyroyal and apiol tablets, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages at New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., respectively, alleging?
that the article had been shipped in part by the Standard Druggists Supply?
Co., Inc., Springfield, Mass., on or about August 4, 1920, and in part by the?
Fay and Young's Rubber Corp., New York, N. Y., on or about April 18, 1920,?
and transported from the States of Massachusetts and New York, respectively,?
into the State of Connecticut, and charging misbranding in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libels for the?
reason that the circular accompanying the said article bore, in English and in?
foreign languages, the following statements regarding its therapeutic and?
curative effects, " * * * Best results are obtainable in using The Re??
nowned ' Paulette's Brand' * * * Tansy, Cotton Root, Pennyroyal and?
Apiol Tablets * * * justly famous Regulator Tablet * * * Delayed?
Menstruations. When the suppression is of long standing * * * take one?
tablet at bedtime until four days before the time when the menses should?
appear. On these four days, immediately preceding the expected appearance?
of   the    menstrual    flow,    *    *    *    take    one    *    *    *    three    times    daily,
*?* * Abnormal, Premature and Irregular Menstruations Where the?
menses are not regular, either making their appearance a few days before,?
or after their proper time, or after the appearance is of long standing Paulette's?
Brand Tablets will be found invaluable. * * * Strict adherence to the?
above directions is generally followed by satisfactory results    *    *    *    failure
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to arrive at this point* should not be in the least discouraging * *. * when?
suffering from several months' suppressed menstruation * * *," .which state??
ments were false, fraudulent, and misleading, and were applied to the said?
article so as to represent falsely and fraudulently and to create in the minds?
of purchasers thereof the impression and belief that the article was in whole?
or in part composed of, or contained, ingredients or medicinal agents effective?
as a remedy for menstrual disorders, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On March 14 and October 7, 1921, respectively, no claimant having appeared?
for the property, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and?
it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States?
marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.