20739. Misbranding of Dr. Hale's Household ointment and Dr. Hale's Household pills. TT. S. v. 63 Small Packages of Dr Hale's House- hold Ointment, et al. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 27966. I. S. no. 39089. S. no. 6000.) Examination of the drug products involved in this case disclosed that the articles contained no ingredients or combinations of ingredients capable of producing certain curative and therapeutic effects claimed in the labeling. On March 30, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 63 small packages and 10 large packages of Dr. Hale's Household ointment, and a sample of Dr. Hale's Household pills, remaining in the original un- broken packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the articles had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about February 9, 1932, by Kenyon & Thomas Co., from Adams, N. 1\, to Boston, Mass., and charging misbranding in viola- tion of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. Analyses of samples of the articles by this Department showed that the ointment consisted of essential oils (approximately 6 percent) including tur- pentine oil and camphor, and petrolatum (approximately 94 percent) ; and that the pills contained extracts of plant drugs, including laxative drugs such as aloe and podophyllum, and anise oil. It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the following statements appearing in the circulars shipped with the articles, regarding their curative and therapeutic effects, were false and fraudulent: (Dr. Hale's Household ointment) "Believes Pain and Allays Inflammation * * * For Belief Of Cold in * * * Chest, Croup, Eczema, * * * Rheumatic Pains, Boils, * * * Wounds and Sores. Piles. * * * for relieving pain and allaying inflammation. * * * General Directions For Using * * * in throat affections * * * for catarrh. * * * Rheu- matism * * * Group—In this dangerous disease, relief is effected if ap- plied in season. Apply freely to the throat and chest * * * In any inflamed condition of the lungs or bronchial tubes, apply freely to the chest and between the shoulders, * * * Catarrh— * * * Eczema—Salt Rheum and Skin Eruptions yield easily in a * * * satisfactory manner. It extracts the poison and heals rapidly. * * * heals quickly. * * * for Erysipelas, Eczema, Salt Rheum * * * Hemorrhoids or Piles— * * * Sore Throat— * * * Inflamed Sore Eyes— * * * If feet are sore, * * * Bheumatism—Yield to the influence of this ointment. * * * Ulcerated Sores * * * are obstinate affections and will require perse- verance * * * Bind up the sore twice a day with fresh Ointment. It tends to reduce the inflammation and extract the irritation humors. It rarely fails if properly applied and persevered in. Toothache— * * * Ear- ache— * * * removes the inflammation * * * heals the flesh * * * Hay Fever— * * * it is powerful in allaying pain and reducing inflamma- tion. * * * in throat and bronchial affections. * * * in Throat and Lung Affections. * * * for Catarrh. * * * For Piles * * * Pi:es * * * For Salt Rheum and Eczema * * * for * * * Bheu- matism * * * [testimonials in circular] * * * hay fever and asth- ma * * * I got hold of your * * * Ointment * * * I had to sit up in my bed as I could not get my breath when lying down. Now I can lie down and sleep all night.' * * * 'It cured my son of eczema.'"; (Dr. Hale's Household pills, (circular) " For Indigestion. Biliousness, Headache, * * * Dizziness, Bad Breath, Jaundice, * * * Low Spirits, Pain in Side, and every form of Liver Complaint. * * * These pills * * * have a direct and specific action upon the liver * * * The Liver Is the largest organ in the human body, weighing about four lbs. in a man. It is situated principally in the right side of the upper part of the abdomen; its length is. about ten inches and its width six or seven. The functions of the liver are the most important of any organ of the body, as every one knows. The liver secretes bile; as the blood passes through the liver the bile is extracted from the blood by the action of the liver. The quantity of bile secreted by a man is from seventeen to twenty-four ounces daily, hence it is of the utmost im- portance that the liver should be healthy in order to perform its functions properly. The symptoms of liver complaint are many, such as a sense of weight and pain in the right side and shoulder or between the shoulder blades, yellowish or pale complexion, great depression of spirits, loss of appetite, cos- tiveness of the bowels, the urine or water is highly colored and deposits a red sediment and ropy mucus. This complaint is generally attended with more or less fever, a dry heat with a dull pain in the right side, the tongue is much coated, a foul bad tasting mouth, skin and white of eyes a yellow color, the stools resembling a clay color. In all stages of liver complaint use Dr, Hale's Household Pills, whether it be sick headache arising from a sluggish action of the liver and the presence of bile in the stomach, or whether it be of a more serious character such as abscess of the liver or the forming of gall stones. We know no remedy more effective to restore the liver to a proper and healthy condition than Dr. Hale's Household Pills. * * * they have a direct and specific action upon all the secretions of the liver. * * * always help the liver. Directions * * * In cases of liver complaint of long standing or a bilious condition of the system * * * great merits in all liver complaints." On April 26, 1932, no claimant having appeared, a judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. It G. TUGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.