11040.?Misbranding   of   Broil's   injection.     U.    S.   v.   60   Dozen   Bottles    of
Brou's   Injection.     Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfei??
ture.    Product released under bond.     (F.  & D. No.  10268.    I.  S.  No.?
2764-r.    S. No. W-349.)?
On May 13, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
California, 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  60 dozen bottles  of  an  article  of  drugs  labeled  in
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BUREAU  OF  CHEMISTRY.	
[Supplement 151,
part, " Broil's Injection * * * B. Fougera & Co., Inc. Importers N. Y.,""?
alleging that the article had been shipped from New York, N. Y., Decem??
ber 5, 1918, and transported from the State of New York into the State-?
of California, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, as amended. The article was labeled in part: (Bottle) "Hygienic and?
Preservative Brou's Injection," (French) "Against Runnings or discharge*?
(Les Bcoulemens) recent or chronic and Against White Flowers, Leucorrhoea ; "?
(booklet, French) " Blenorrhagia * * * Blenorrhoea * * * Leucorrhoea?
or white Flowers White losses Their Treatment * * * Blenorrhagia ureth??
ral, or gonorrhoea * * * The beginning of Blenorrhagia * * * It is at?
this moment that one  should have recourse to the use of Brou's Injection
*?* * It is of immense importance to the patient to rid himself as quickly?
as possible of his discharge * * * If one has waited too long before having?
recourse to Brou's Injection1 * * * In cases where one has left the inflam??
mation to show itself it is necessary to wait till it has stopped * * *?
when the discharge has changed color and becomes yellow it is necessary to?
begin the treatment by the injection. * * * Thus employed Brou's Injection?
will always give good results. The treatment by injection constitutes the?
treatment par excellence of blenorrhoea * * * Far from producing stric??
tures Injections prevent them by curing their usual causes that is to say pro??
longed inflammation of the mucous membranes and its extention to underlying?
tissues * * * These injections act on the mucous membrane * * * and?
facilitates its return to a state of health. Brou's Injection is not solely tonic?
and astringent but also isolating, which explains its success in the treatment?
of blenorrhoea. It coats the canal with a medicament which keeps the walls?
isolated. Leucorrhoea, white flowers, white Losses * * * The treatment?
consists of Injection Brou * * * This treatment * * * will not be long?
in bringing a complete cure * * * Injection Brou is hygienic and preserva??
tive * * * It is preservative (preventive) because by taking an injection?
after an impure contact * * *," (English, French, Italian, German, Span??
ish, Portuguese, and other languages) " Brou's Injection Hygienic and Preserva??
tive For the cure all recent and chronic discharges of the urinary organs.?
(Gonorrhoea, Leucorrhoea, and Glett.) Brou's Injection will always be more?
successful, if it be used immediately after the first appearance of the disease.
*?*    *    Brou's Injection used as preservative    *    *    *    use the injection."?
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart??
ment showed that it consisted essentially of sulphates a ad acetates of lead?
and zinc, opium alkaloids, alcohol, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the?
reason that certain statements appearing on the bottles and in the booklets,?
as aforesaid, and in an accompanying circular, regarding the curative and?
therapeutic effects thereof, were false and fraudulent in that the said article?
contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the?
effects claimed.
On October 11, 1919, E. Fougera & Co;, New York, N. Y., claimant, having?
consented to a decree, an order was entered by the court adjudging the product?
to be misbranded, and it was further ordered that the said product be released?
to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the exe??
cution of a bond in the sum of $300, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.