26732.  Misbranding of Life-Line Tonic.     U.  S. v. John B. Kori   (United States 
Remedy   Co.).     Plea   of   nolo   contendere.     Fine   of   $250   suspended.
(F. & D. no. 36942.    Sample 24420-B.)
The labels on this product and an accompanying circular bore and contained 
false and fraudulent representations regarding its curative or therapeutic effect 
with respect to various diseases and ailments.
On August 10, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against John B. Kori, trading as United States 
Remedy Co., Jacksonville, Fla., charging shipment by said defendant in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act as) amended, on or about July 1, 1935, from 
the State of Florida into the State of Pennsylvania of a quantity of Life e-Line 
Tonic that was misbranded.
Analysis of the article showed that it was a yellowish, sirupy liquid con- 
taining chiefly: Epsom salt, glycerophosphates, quinine, plant material, and 
citric and hydrochloric acids.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that statements regarding its 
curative or therapeutic effects, appearing on the bottle labels and in an accom- 
panying circular, falsely and fraudulently represented that it was effective as 
a life tonic, as a good general tonic, as a blood and system purifier, and as a 
treatment, remedy, and cure for general run-down conditions and digestive 
troubles; effective to aid nature in the treatment of stomach, liver, kidney, and 
bowel ailments; effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for constipation, 
indigestion, biliousness, headache, fever, malaria, chills, hay fever, cough, 
grippe, flu, neuralgia, and rheumatism; effective to act well on the liver, stom- 
ach, kidneys, and bowels; effective to insure health, and to make one eat better, 
sleep better, work better, and feel better; effective as a general tonic in reliev- 
ing and preventing many ailments; effective to aid the general system to func- 
tion properly, and to maintain a healthy condition; and effective as a recon- 
structive ; effective to maintain health, effective as a relief of the symptom of hay 
fever and shortness of breath, colds in the head and chest, malaria, chills and 
fever, intermittent and remittent, constipation, indigestion, biliousness, dizzi- 
ness, ague, dengue fever, headache, offensive breath, sour stomach, neuralgia 
or "Borowague", nasal catarrh, influenza, tired feeling, coughs, la grippe, pain 
and rheumatism; effective for clearing sores, itch, rash, pimply eruptions of 
the skin and skin troubles which are caused by impurities of the blood; effec- 
tive to aid nature to act well on the bowels, liver, and kidneys, to aid them 
in driving from the blood excess uric acid, and to throw off all poisons and 
impurities; effective to make and increase rich red blood, to purify and 
strengthen, and to give new life and vigor to the system for old and young; 
effective to restore energy and vitality, to build up health and strength, and to 
promote appetite and digestion; effective as a tonic for health, strength, good 
feeling, good appetite, and clear healthy complexion, and as a remedy to kill 
the germs that cause the fever; effective to empty the bowels and cleanse the 
system; effective as a good preventive of many ailments; effective as a treat-
ment, remedy, and cure for backache, pain anywhere in the body caused by 
colds, rheumatism, or rheumatic trouble, aching joints, scarlatinal-dropsy, 
chronic disease, general dropsy from valvular disease of the heart and other 
conditions, bladder troubles, nervousness, nervous-sexual debility, and lost man- 
hood ; effective as a diminisher of uric-acid gravel, stone cystitis, stricture, and 
enlarged prostate; effective as a preventive of uric acid and gravel; and effective 
to restore the torpid liver to its normal condition, to create a healthy action of 
the digestive organs, and to relieve other ailments.
On September 21, 1936, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere, the 
court sentenced defendant to pay a fine of $250, suspended the sentence, and 
placed defendant under probation for 5 years.
W. R GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.