11650. Misbranding of Dr. Link's Golden tonic. IT. S. v. 35 Bottles of?
Alleged Dr. Iiinlc's Golden Tonic. Default decree of condemna??
tion, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 16489.    S. No. C-3663.)
On July 5, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and
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condemnation of 25 bottles of Dr. Link's Golden tonic at Wichita, Kans.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Dr. Link's Medicine Co.,?
from Dallas, Tex., on or about May 9, 1922, and transported from the State of?
Texas into the State of Kansas, and charging misbranding in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it consisted of approximately 39 per cent of Epsom?
salt, 1 per cent of nitric acid, 1.5 per cent of potassium citrate, 4 per #eat?
of iron sulphate, and 54 per cent of water.
Misbranding of the article was1 alleged in substance im the libel for the?
reason that the following statements regarding the therapeutic or curative?
effects of the said article, appearing on the labels of the bottles and cartons?
containing the said article and in the accompanying circular, to wit, (bottle?
and carton) "Anti-Malaria For Chills, Periodic Fever, Any Form of Malaria,?
Yellow Eyes, Sallow Complexion, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Eczema, Eruptions?
upon the Skin, Kidney Trouble, Dropsy, Female Troubles, Irregularities * * *?
Headache, Boils, Old Sores, Blood Taint, Rheumatism, Biliousness, Syphilis,?
* * * Sour Stomach * * * Weakness in Men and Women * * *?
Bed Wetting," (circular) " not1 even tubercular or consumptive germs can?
make progress in pure blood. * * * Broken' down manhood and woman??
hood * * * cured of Rheumatism, Lagrippe, Stomach, Liver, Kidney and?
Female Diseases * * * Has cured influenza and La Grippe and will prevent?
these and other diseases," were false and fraudulent in that the said state??
ments were applied to the article knowingly and in reckless and wanton disre??
gard of their truth or falsity so as to represent falsely and fraudulently to the?
purchasers thereof and create in the minds of such purchasers the impression?
and belief that the article was in whole or in part composed of or contained?
ingredients or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects?
claimed, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On March 12, 1923, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWAED M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
S. R. A.—Chem. Suppl. 164.