20745. Misbranding of Lymphin. U. S. v. 8 Boxes of Lymphin-Masc. and 
20 Boxes of Lymphin-Fem. Default decree of condemnation, for- 
feiture, and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 28675, 28676. Sample nos. 
13601-A, 13602-A.)
This case involved two lots of drug preparations, labeled Lymphin-Masc. and 
Lymphin-Fem., accompanied by circulars containing identical curative claims. 
Analyses showed that the articles contained no medicinal agents capable of pro- 
ducing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed.
On August 25, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of ( 
California, 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 8 boxes of Lymphin Masc. and 20 boxes of Lymphin Fern., remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the articles 
had been shipped in interstate commerce between the dates of April 14, 1932 
and May 2, 1932, by the Bika Biochemical Laboratories from Philadelphia, Pa., 
into the State of California, and charging misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act as amended.
Analyses of samples of the articles by this Department showed that Lym- 
phin-Masc. consisted of tablets consisting essentially of milk sugar, starch, 
ground plant material, a small proportion of organic nitrogenous material, and 
1.4 percent of inorganic material including iron, calcium, sodium, potassium and 
magnesium phosphates, sulphates and chlorides; and that Lymphin-Fem. con- 
sisted of tablets composed of milk sugar, starch, ground plant material, a small 
proportion of organic nitrogenous material and 0.6 percent of inorganic material 
including calcium, potassium, sodium, iron and magnesium phosphates, chlorides 
and sulphates.
It was alleged in the libel that the articles were misbranded in that the 
following statements regarding their curative and therapeutic effects were 
false and fraudulent: (Circular) "Lymphin Male. Female. * * * Among 
the constitutionally weak, the lymphically-inclined patient, is incapable of re- 
sisting the assaults of stress or disease; youth and mature age are susceptible 
to lymphic tendencies. Disturbances in the thymus gland produce a lymphic 
condition. Tendency toward childishness in old age, is one of the several mani- 
festations, also thymus-hyperplasie and thymus-persistenz. As is known, in 
youth, the thymus and germinative gland exert a profound influence upon each 
other. In view of the fact of the close interrelation of the thymus, germinatire 
and hypophyse glands, Bika-lymphin is the remedy overcoming a disturbance 
in their normal functioning. Bika-lymphin also reaches the many disturbances 
of body and intellect old age is heir to. Symptoms: Lymphatic constitution, 
Lymphatic anemia, goitre, (protruding eyeball-type, accompanied by trembling, | 
rapid heart action) scrofula, weakness of old age.   *    *    *   An essential fune-
tion of gland therapy is its ability to directly influence the excretory glands, 
in the event of an under production of hormones—with its resulting disturbance 
of the health balance. The unique effectiveness of Bika gland remedy lies m 
its ability to restore the equal balance of hormone production; encouraging 
uninterrupted hormone production in normal, minute quantities acceptable to 
the bloodstream. Recognizing the fact that the human organism reacts unfav- 
orably when hormone-production balance is disturbed; Bika gland remedy 
attacks and equalizes this condition. Heretofore, the effective introduction of 
hormone-stimulating preparations were hampered by the necessity of the hyper- 
dermic method; which restricted the physician to a minute and oft-repeated 
dosage, with its frequently unpleasant reactions and manifestations. This con- 
dition was the lesser evil compared to the hyperdermic, which introduced a 
greater mass of hormones, thereby forcibly creating a rapid rise in the hormone 
balance—the sudden shock attended by alarming physiological reactions. 
Yastly superior in effectiveness * * * the law of reabsorption and metabo- 
lism,  encouraging and stimulating effected glands into  normal productivity.
* *    *    assures an established, permanent hormone balance."
On March 21, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the products be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUG WELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.