11180. Misbranding of Orange Blossom female suppositories. IT. S. v.?
John A. McGill and Carrie McGill (Dr. J. A. McGill & Co.). Pleas?
of guilty.    Fine, ?50.     (F. & D. No. 9787.    I. S. No. 9185-p.)
On December 31, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District?
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
John A. McGill and Carrie McGill, copartners, trading as Dr. J. A. McGill &?
Co., Chicago, 111., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about April 30, 1918, from the State?
of Illinois into the State of Wisconsin, of a quantity of an article labeled in?
part: (Design of orange blossoms) " Female Suppositories," which ?was mis-?
branded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it consisted of suppositories containing petrolatum,?
cocoa butter, boric acid, alum, and sodium sulphate.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for?
the reason that certain statements appearing in the booklet accompanying the?
said article, regarding the therapeutic and curative effect thereof, falsely and?
fraudulently represented it to be effective as a remedy, treatment, and cure?
for diseases peculiar to women, inflammation, congestion and falling of the?
womb, anteversion, retroversion and prolapsus, ulceration, leucorrhoea, profuse?
and difficult menstruation, female weakness, painful menstruation, effective?
to relieve suffering at childbirth and to relieve the organ of morbid conditions?
in cases of change of life, and effective to give relief to nervous sick headache,?
backache, irritation of the stomach, spinal irritation, pain between the?
shoulders, distressing sensation in the back of the head and nape of the?
neck, and numbness and coldness of the extremities, when, in truth and in?
fact, it was not.
On December 15, 1922, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.