19480. Misbranding of Tnttle's Family elixir. V. S. v. Tuttle's Elixir Co. 
Plea of guilty. Fine, $100. (F. & D. No. 27422. I. S. Nos. 20434, 
28464, 28465, 29124.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of several lots of a drug 
product known as Tuttle's Family elixir. Examination of the article disclosed 
no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing certain cura- 
tive and therapeutic effects claimed for it in the statements appearing on the 
bottle label and carton and in an accompanying circular.
On April 14. 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against 
Tuttle's Elixir Co., a corporation, Boston, Mass., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act as amended, of quantities of 
Tuttle's Family elixir that was misbranded. The information charged various 
shipments of the product as follows: On or about January 22, February 13, and 
March 9, 1931, from the State of Massachusetts into the State of Maine, and 
on or about February 9 and April 6, 1931, from the State of Massachusetts into 
the State of New York.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this department showed that it con- 
sisted essentially of volatile oils including camphor and a coniferous oil, am- 
monia, ox gall, alcohol, and water.
It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that 
certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the curative and therapeutic 
effects of the article, appearing on the bottle label and carton and in an ac- 
companying circular, falsely and fraudulently represented that the article was 
effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for lameness and joint affections, 
cholera morbus, diarrhoea, neuralgia, toothache, sick headache, ordinary head- 
ache, earache, croup, caked breasts, lame back, asthma, pain in the side, corns, 
bunions, chilblains, gout, contracted cords, sore throat, rheumatism, inflamma- 
tory rheumatism, colic, and indigestion; and effective as an instant relief and 
speedy cure for poisoning from gypsy and brown-tail moths; and effective as 
a relief for pain, whereas the article contained no ingredients or medicinal
agents effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for lameness and joint affec- 
tions, cholera morbus, diarrhoea, neuralg.a, toothache, sick headache, ordinary 
headache, earache, croup, caked breasts, lame back, asthma, pain in the side, 
corns, bunions, chilblains, gout, contracted cords, sore throat, rheumatism, in- 
flammatory rheumatism, colic, and indigestion; or effective as an instant relief 
and speedy cure for poisoning from gypsy and brown-tail moths; or effective 
as a relief for pain.
On June 6, 1932, a plea of not guilty, which had been formerly entered, 
having been retracted, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.