22633. Misbranding of Leonard's Mexican Barb "Wire Liniment. IT. S. v. 33 
Bottles and 11 Bottles of Leonard's Slexica Barb "Wire Liniment. 
Default decree of destruction. (F. & D. no. 31942. Sample nos. 
52368-A, 52369-A.)
Examination of Leonard's Liniment showed that it contained no ingredient 
or combination of ingredients capable of producing certain curative and thera- 
peutic effects claimed in the labeling.
On or about February 13, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 33 small bottles 
and 11 large bottles of Leonard's Mexica Barb Wire Liniment at Kansas City, 
Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or 
about October 14, 1933, by Mrs. Harry Leonard, from Hutchinson, Kans., 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 kerosene, linseed oil, and tar oil.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that a circular 
shipped with the article contained false and fraudulent representations regard- 
ing its effectiveness in the treatment of colic, nail wounds, heaves, distemper, 
thrush, itch, eczema, poison from eating stalks, boils and carbuncles, felon, caked 
udder, blood poison, snake or dog bite, coughs in hogs, mange, tack wounds, nose 
bleed, weak eyes, scum over the eye, pink eye or influenza, swellings, coughs, 
croup, hemorrhage of the lungs, sore throat, sore lungs, whooping cough, diph- 
theria, bronchitis, tonsilitis, bunions, caked breast and sore nipples, bleeding 
gums, earache, lame back, rheumatism, piles, catarrh, asthma, pneumonia, as an 
agency to stop the flow of blood, as a relief for rheumatism and asthma, and as 
a preventative of hog cholera or chicken cholera and roup.
One June 27, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered finding the product misbranded and ordering that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.