20943. Misbranding of Mixer's cancer and scrofula syrup. U. S. v. 17 Bot- 
tles of Mixer's Cancer the Scrofula Syrup. Default decree of 
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 28703. 
Sample no. 4093-A.)
Examination of the drug preparation involved in this action disclosed that 
the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of pro- 
ducing certain curative and therapeutic effects claimed.
On August 25, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 17 bottles of Mixer's cancer and scrofula syrup at Chicago, 
111., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce August 
27, 1931 (in part on June 25, 1932) by the Mixer Medicine Co., from Hastings, 
Mich., to Chicago, Ill., 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 potassium iodide (2.96 grams per 100 milliliters), extracts 
of plant drugs including a laxative plant drug, alcohol, sugar, and water.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the carton 
and bottle labels and an accompanying booklet contained false and fraudulent 
statements regarding its usefulness in the treatment of cancer, including cancer 
of the lip, nose, face, eye, forehead, cheek, chin, eyebrow, ear, neck, tongue, 
shoulder, breast, womb, and knee, scrofulous affections, erysipelas, St. An- 
thony's fire, tinea capitis, scald head, milk crust, salt rheum, ringworm, tetter, 
tumors, ulcers, boils, pustules, blotches, pimples, catarrh, laryngitis, bronchitis, 
dyspepsia, piles, fistula, diseases peculiar to the glandular and assimilative 
systems, scrofula and kindred diseases, abscesses, all blood diseases, sores, fever 
sores, goiter, eruptions, malignant condition or growth, rheumatism, eczema, 
cancerous tumor, chronic ulcer, running sore, ulcers in throat, asthma, catarrh 
of stomach, enlarged glands, tuberculosis of the bone, sore eyes, blindness, car- 
buncles, ovarian tumor, consumption, cramping of limbs, milk leg, varicose 
veins, lameness of the back, and swelled neck.
On October 27, 1982, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TTTGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.