18950. Misbranding of Reducine. U. S. v. 40 Cans of Reducine. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 26922. I. S. No. 35831. S. No. 5136.) Examination of a drug product, known as Reducine, from the shipment herein described having shown that the can and carton labels and an accom- panying booklet contained statements and designs representing that the article possessed curative and therapeutic properties which, in fact, it did not possess, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. On September 1, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- demnation of 40 cans of the said Reducine, remaining in the original unbroken packages at New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Reducine Co., Allegan, Mich., on or about March 6, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Louisiana, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that it con- sisted essentially of sodium carbonate, soap, potassium iodide, a compound of iron, wood tar, and water, flavored with aromatics. It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the fol- lowing statements appearing on the carton and can labels and in the accom- panying booklet, together with certain pictures and designs appearing in the said booklet indicating the disease conditions for which the product was recom- mended as a treatment, were false and fraudulent, since the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed: (Can label) "Reducine the Humane Treatment A Preparation for Lame, Sore, Worn, Wounded and Blemished Horses and all other Animals. For Certain Uses of Human Beings;" (carton) "Reducine;" (booklet) "Re- ducine A Veterinary Preparation for Lame, Sore, Worn, Wounded and Blem- ished Horses and all Other Animals, and for Certain Uses by Human Beings. * * * For most kinds of lameness and for reducing all enlargements, * * * If, when the new coat of hair has well started to grow, the enlarge- ment is not entirely removed, another course should be given. * * * Always treat the hoof if the horse is lame-as well as treat the lame place at the same time. * * * The above cut shows the shape and location of the lungs and kidneys. In treating any disease of these organs where a poultice or other external application is indicated, Reducine will be found unequalled for this purpose. * * * Bone Spavin * * * Any method of treatment which causes pain retards the cure of any case, be it horse or man. * * * Bog or Blood Spavin and Thoroughpin * * * dropsical * * * or tumors * * * The treatment of a hock, afflicted with either Bog Spavin or Thorough- pin or both, is the same in all cases. The action of Reducine must reach the synovial sac or capsule to make a complete, perfect and permanent cure. * * * Tendinous Thoroughpin * * * Sprung Knee, Cocked Ankle, or any foot lameness. Always treat the foot of a lame horse-No Matter Where He Is Lame. * * * for thrush and for navicular disease, brittle hoofs, hoof-bound and contracted hoofs. * * * Sidebone * * * Seedy Toe * * * Chronic Cracked Heels * * * Shoe Boil * * * Lameness of the Coffin Joint-Navicular Lameness * * * Shoulder Lameness * * * Sweeney * * * Fistula of Withers and Poll Evil * * * Sore Neck- Shoulders-Back * * * Splint * * * A splint will retain its size and shape until the action of Reducine has dissolved the deposit-as water would a cube of sugar-until it breaks down, disintegrates and is absorbed. * * * Buck-shin * * * Capped hock * * * Big Knee * * * Nothing will remove the soreness, relieve the pain or heal any wound as quickly as treat- ment with Reducine * * * Distemper, sore throat, shipping fever, yard fever, and nearly every sort of throat trouble will usually yield quickly to treatment with Reducine. Barb Wire Cuts and All Fresh Wounds * * * The wound, in ordinary cases, will heal by first intention, the pain will be re- lieved instantly; there will be no infection, no proud flesh and there will be left the least possible sear. * * * Osselets * * * Split Hoof * * * Nail In Foot * * * need cause the horse little or no lameness and no serious results should follow. This is a fact, yet another fact is that thousands of horses die every year from lock-jaw caused by nail wounds, while other thou- sands develop quittor or other complications and suffer all the tortures of pur- gatory-and then some-and are lame for days, unable to work. All this suf- fering-all this loss of service, all these complications, all possibility of lock-jaw may be avoided to an absolute certainty if these directions are followed. * * * No germs of any kind can live an instant where Reducine is applied. Reducine will help to heal the wound from nail or calk wounds in the quickest possible time. There can be no infection. There will be no proud flesh in calk wounds. * * * be insured, by having a can of Reducine always on hand * * * Stifle Lameness and Luxation of the Patella * * * so that the weak or strained ligaments may contract and become strong enough to hold the patella in position. * * * the formation of very soft tumors on the stifles of young foals. The latter will usually yield to a ten-day treatment with Re- ducine. Kicks or other injuries to the stifle should be immediately treated with Reducine * * * Curb is the easiest of all the blemishes which Re- ducine is called on to repair. * * * relieve the pain, reduce the swelling and inflammation, and prevent formation of a permanent enlargement. * * * For old curbs * * * Bowed Tendon * * * Windpuffs * * * The articular * * * usually yields to treatment, though the common garden variety of windpuff is the most difficult of all ordinary blemishes to remove. * * * a little old windpuff may take longer to completely remove than the biggest shoe boil or the most enormous bog spavin you ever saw. * * * Warts * * * Barber's Itch-Ordinary Itch-Ordinary Skin Eruptions- Pimples-Eczema-Scald Head-Ringworm-Dandruff-Scaly Eruptions on Skin or Scalp. Diseases of the human skin or scalp, where these diseases are caused by parasites or fungus, will often yield to one single application of Reducine. No injury to the most delicate skin can result. All the cosmetics, lotions, washes and special preparations on the market combined will not pro- duce results so certain and satisfactory as Beducine in these cases. Fresh cuts- and bruises on human flesh will heal as if by magic if Beducine is applied directly into and around the cuts and all over the bruises. No infection can. occur if Beducine is applied freely at once. Nothing else will so quickly subdue the pain, stop the bleeding, remove the soreness and heal the injury. Mange Dog-Horse * * * Sprung Knees-Cocked Ankles * * * To cure a knee-sprung horse, treat his feet. * * * and every horse will have good feet, if you follow these simple directions. * * * Gout-Bheumatic Swell- ings * * * Beducine will relieve most cases of gout more quickly and cer- tain than any other treatment. Saturate absorbent cotton with Reducine and! do up the aching member with it. You may sleep to-night and probably as soon as to-morrow you may wear a shoe. * * * Scratches, Mud Fever, Mallen- ders and Sallenders * * * Corns * * * Saturate cotton with Reducine and press between the web of the shoe and the corn, then treat the foot with Reducine as directed for contracted hoof. * * * Thrush * * * will kill every thrush germ. If the hoof is contracted in the least, a new hoof must be grown before the horse will be sound. See directions for treatment of con- tracted hoof. * * * Quittor * * * Fill the abscess with Reducine once in three or four days. Do not wash out the sore after the first time. * * * Castration of horses or other animals should be immediately followed by a dressing of Reducine. Dehorning and every sort of Surgical Operations on animals and minor operations on human beings should be treated with Re- ducine. * * * Navel Infection Will you remember that one application of Reducine will prevent, to an absolute certainty, navel infection in young foals- Thousands of valuable foals die every year from navel infection-others that survive are stunted and suffer from swollen knees, stifles, etc. Insure every foal against infection by applying Reducine to the navel as soon as it is born. * * * [Testimonials in bookletl ' Several years ago, I was greatly troubled with articular rheumatism in the joints of my fingers. My physician gave me a small pot of black ointment which worked almost like magic. Before using it, I could hardly use my instruments, but after applying it a few times the soreness and pain disappeared. Then the doctor told me it was Reducine and since that time I have used Reducine for several purposes not mentioned in your advertisements or booklet and in every case with uniform success. For instance, I have used it for caries or decay of the jaw bone caused by neglected ulcerated teeth. Also, in many cases of pyorrhea which, in its early stages, often causes severe swelling of the gums. * * * I have used your Reducine on horses with good results. I see you recommend it for piles. Please write me in regard to treatment of piles. * * * a bad swelling. * * * Now I have a spring colt that had navel trouble and it settled in her fruit foot. Pus ran from this swelling for a long time and the joint is large. Do you think that Reducine would be the thing to use in this case? * * * a case of fistula. * * * I want to write to you and tell you what Reducine had done for me. Several years ago, I had a small purple colored puffy looking place come on my face. I tried several kinds of treatment but it kept getting larger until it was half as large as a nickel. I used several applications of Reducine and completely cured it. Everyone thought it was a cancer. I cannot thank Reducine enough. I have a goitre which is bothering me considerably. Would you advise using Reducine on it? A doctor told me that a goitre was an en- larged gland so why won't Reducine reduce the gland? Please let me know. We have used Reducine for the stock for several years and we think there is nothing as good. * * * Have taken off all kinds of knots and enlargements and * * * I have taken off splints, bogs, curbs, ringbones, cured bad ten- dons, big knees, shoeboils, sore shoulders, sore throat, sweeney, foot rot and thrush. * * * If you remember sometime ago we wrote you about a friend of ours, Mr. * * * that had rheumatic gout and went on crutches just as the picture shown in your booklet. We begged and prevailed on him to use Reducine * * * and if it did him no good, it would not cost him one cent. He asked his doctor about it and after a while he consented to use it. We put it on him ourselves. It worked slow but after a while he put his crutches aside and used two canes and little later on used only one cane and today, to our sur- prise, he was walking around town with no cane. He is a pretty fair jig dancer and today he could get out on our floor and dance a'jig. Before using this treatment, he could not sleep one-half of the night and now his wife has trouble to get him up. We must say it is the greatest improvement we ever saw. We find Reducine a great remedy. All you have to do is to give it time and it will do the work. We are selling quite a lot of it down in North Caro- lina. * * * He had taken distemper and his throat was swelled up as full as the skin would hold, and the swelling was very hard and feverish. I used Reducine on him and in 24 hours the swelling was all gone away. I have used it in many other cases, all with good results. * * * ruptured a suspensory ligament, * * * Please send me one can of Reducine by parcel post, C. O. D., at once. I have cured two men of eczema. One had it five years and paid $100 to the doctors; the other had it three years; and now they say they are both cured. * * * In the Actimonycosis cases treated with Reducine: The first is all right, and the second is on its third application, with good hopes of relief. The cow was neglected to the last moment. * * * The swelling is getting soft and is disappearing. * * * I believe by injection we can cure anthrax. Here in this part of the South in the last few years we have lost many cases. * * * Will Reducine cure eczema? I have seen no testimo- nials to that effect, but would like to know if possible. Also state the effect it would have on the skin. Kindly send me your latest booklet. Last summer I got a part of a can from my neighbor to put on my horse that had a bad case of mange, and it surely did the trick, after everything else failed. * * * I have a peculiar case. About a year ago I had a growth start on my left breast. It got almost as large as a walnut and finally got to hurt me from a jar. I had a doctor examine it and he said he did not like the looks of it, but would not say what it was. I asked him if there was any medicine that might scatter it and he said " No." He said I would have to have it cut out and then said I might use iodine, although he had no faith in it. So I used iodine, with no results. I had used Reducine for years with great success, so I told him about that and he laughed and said nothing. I had a little left in a can that was about three years old. In thirty days the swelling was smaller. The doctor said it was smaller, but said he had no confidence in the Reducine curing it. I bought a new can from J. B. Sickles, of St. Louis, and have used from it four- teen days and the swelling is almost completely gone. I can only feel it at times. It is so much smaller than it was that I think it will soon be completely gone. The doctor, I feel certain, thinks it was a cancer of some kind, but refused to tell me what his opinion was. I am naturally a great friend of Reducine. Reducine is certainly a perfect preparation for the treatment of piles. * * * have had still another remarkable cure on a horse with blood poisoning in the hind leg. It left him with a very much enlarged leg from hoof to hock, but with one 10-day treatment it was now normal again * * * It stopped the catch in the stifle. * * * I have a four-year old colt which I bought at two years old with a lump on the left side, low down and just behind the girth place. This horse has had this lump since before I bought him and it gets no bigger and no smaller. It doesn't pain him in the least, but still it is a blemish, and he doesn't need it in his business. The lump is rather hard, and I expect would be called by a Vet. a fibroid tumor, but I don't know. Reading your little book the other day I began wondering whether it could not be treated somewhat as you advise treating a shoe boil and removed in that way. * * * Enclosed find P. O. Money Order for $5.00 for which please send me one can of Reducine. I have used a number of cans of Reducine and never without good results. I have a mare that had mange until her hair came off in blotches. She now has a fine glossy coat. Another had a small rupture and Reducine healed it perfectly. Still another had a hard growth on his shoulder of a year's standing. Reducine removed it completely. The trouble this time is a growth on the elbow of my left arm that baffles the doctors. One doctor helped it by electric treatments for a time. Since I quit his treatment, the growth has returned and is very painful and it makes my elbow stiff so I can scarcely tie a four-in-hand tie and my arm is so lame I can hardly raise it above my head. I have used Reducine on my person for small troubles with satisfaction. What do you think of it for the trouble I have described * * * I had a very good horse with two ringbones, one on each fruit foot He could not limp but was awfully stiff and sore. I cured them with one treatment with Reducine and sold him later, perfectly sound. I have cured curbs completely and removed lots of other bunches. * * * While Reducine is a veterinary preparation, it is also the Remedy for Eczema, even on the tender babe. My babe had a standing eczema for about ten months; also used special eczema remedies but nothing cured. A friend told me to try Reducine; it was a horse medicine but he thought it would cure if anything would. My husband wasn't much in favor of it but I had become desperate and tried it My baby was much relieved by the first application and has been perfectly well of the eczema now for about two months. Because I love to help whoever I can, whenever I can, is why I write these few lines. * * * My mare had windpuffs and a bog spavin of two years' standing, and it was a very bad case. Her hocks and fetlocks were enlarged to about twice their normal size. When she worked on the farm half a day, next day she could hardly walk. I tried several medicines, but they failed. I used a can of Reducine and with one course I cured her of all lameness and the enlargements are completely ab- sorbed. Since using Reducine I have worked her constantly in the field and have worked her some on the roads besides, and she never has shown any sign of lameness. I am more than glad I found Reducine. This same mare became sick the latter part of May with what they called here " poison glands." The glands in her throat swelled to great size. Many horses have died with this disease within the last year, and I do not know of any other case, except my mare, that has recovered, all others having died that contracted the disease in this vicinity. I treated my mare with Reducine and she began to improve after two days. At the end of about fifteen days the swelling had entirely disap- peared and the mare is entirely well and sound. Enclosed find money order for $4.25 for which send me another can by prepaid express, as I wish to have some on hand at all times. * * * I have been a user of Reducine on live stock for a great many years, and I am going to ask you rather an intimate question and see if you can help me. I have myself, for the last four years, had a very mean cough, apparently not the result of a cold, as my physician tells me, a little thickening of the membrane deep down in my throat. He tells me that practically nothing can be done except to spray it from time to time Which I find does not give me permanent relief. I have a feeling that Reducine applied to my throat, would be a material benefit at least and would like to try It but before doing so, I thought I would write you and see if you can give me some advice on the subject. Is there any diluted form which would be good for human beings instead of the strong form for live stock? * * * I have been using your Reducine for some time with great results. I used it on a horse that was kicked with a never-slip shoe. It let the joint water out. I doc- tored with a V. S. for about two months without results. I got a can of Re- ducine and the first application dried it up at once and it healed perfectly. I notice in your booklet where Reducine has been used for goitre. Have you any special instructions for using Reducine on goitre? I have a friend who had had a goitre for about 24 years, I would like to get relief for her.' " On November 18, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. ABTHTO M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.