11402.?Misbranding   of  Fisher's  uterine   tonic   and   Fisher's  kidney  food.
TJ.   S.   v.   Fisheropathic   College   Assoc,   a   Corporation.     Plea   of?
gTiilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 15450.     I. S. Nos. 10336-t, 10340-t.)
On January 24, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court?
of the United States for said district an information against the Fisheropathic?
College Assoc, a corporation, Denver, Colo., alleging shipment by said company,?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about January 25,?
1921, from the State of Colorado into the State of California, of a quantity?
of Fisher's uterine tonic and of a quantity of Fisher's kidney food, both of?
which were misbranded. The former was labeled in part: (Carton) "Fisher's?
Uterine Tonic Knowledge * * * Manufactured By Geo. B. Fisher, Denver,?
Colorado;" (bottle) " The Fisheropathic College Ass'n. Denver, Colo." The?
latter was labeled in part: (Carton) "Fisher's Kidney Food 6? Alcohol?
* * * Manufactured and Guaranteed by the Fisheropathic College Associa??
tion San Francisco, Cal.    *    *    *   Denver, Colo."
Analyses of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that the uterine tonic contained ammonia, traces of ammo??
nium salts, including iodid and carbonate, vegetable extractives, glycerin, and?
water, and that the kidney food contained a small quantity of vegetable ex??
tractive, citric acid, sugar, alcohol, and water.
Misbranding of the said uterine tonic was alleged in substance in the in??
formation for the reason that certain statements appearing on the carton, box,
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and bottle containing the said article and in the accompanying booklet, falsely?
and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure?
for apathy (lack of passion), amenorrhea (absence of menstrual flow), ante-?
version (forward inclination of the uterus), blood poisoning, septicaemia and?
pyaemia, hemorrhage occuring during gestative period, uterine cancers and?
tumors, dysmenorrhea (suppressed or painful menstruation), hysteria, earache?
and abcess, gonorrhea, leucorrhea (whites), pneumonia, and prolapsus, and?
effective to keep the generative organs vigorous and give vigor and life to the?
diseased organs, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
Misbranding of the kidney food was alleged for the reason that the state??
ment, to wit, " 6? Alcohol," borne on the cartons and on the labels attached?
to the bottles containing the said article, regarding the article and the in??
gredients and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it?
represented that the article contained 6 per cent of alcohol, whereas, in truth?
and in fact, it contained 12.7 per cent of alcohol. Misbranding was alleged for?
the further reason that the article contained alcohol and the label failed to?
bear a statement of the quantity and proportion of alcohol contained therein.
On January 19, 1923, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be??
half of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agricultwe.