11096.?Misbranding: of  Orangre Blossom female  suppositories.     V.  S.  v.  56
Boxes of Orange Blossom Female Suppositories. Default decree'?
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 16665.?
S. No. C-3722.)
On July 25, 3922, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Iowa, 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 con??
demnation of 56 boxes of Orange Blossom female suppositories, remaining?
unsold at Sioux City, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped by Dr.?
J. A. McGill & Co., Chicago, 111., on or about November 17, 1921, and trans??
ported from the State of Illinois into the State of Iowa, and charging mis??
branding 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 suppositories consisted essentially of cocoa butter,?
petrolatum, boric acid, sodium sulphate, and a little flour.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that the statements appearing in the circular accompanying the said article,?
regarding its curative and therapeutic effects, and which were quoted in the?
said libel in part,  as follows,    " *    *    *    for Diseases  Peculiar  To  Women
*?* * Female Weakness * * * In cases of Pregnancy, the Suppositories?
may be safely used up to the fourth month * * * consequently relieving?
the patient of much suffering at child-birth. * * * In cases of Change of?
Life, the Suppositories will relieve the organ of the morbid conditions * * *?
Nervous * * * headache, backache, irritation of the stomach, spinal?
irritation, pain between the shoulders, distressing sensation in the back of?
the head, nape of the neck, and numbness and coldness of the extremities.?
In these cases the Suppositories will give relief by their action on the womb.
*?* * for * * * Inflammation, Congestion and Falling of the Womb,?
Anteversion, Retroversion and Prolapsus, Ulceration, Leucorrhoea, Profuse?
and Difficult Menstruation * * *," were false and fraudulent, since the?
said article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of?
producing the effects claimed in the said circular.
On Noveniber 3, 1922, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiteure was entered, and it was ordered by?
the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.