26968. Misbranding of Gnrarlna De Juan Salas Nieto. IT. S. v. Richard Dlener 
(Cnrarina Agency). Plea of guilty. Fine, $40. (F. & D. no. 87989. 
Sample no. 43856-B.)
The bottle label, carton, and a booklet enclosed in the cartons bore and con- 
tained false and fraudulent representations regarding the curative and thera- 
peutic effects of this article.
On September 25, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Richard Diener, trading as Curarina 
Agency, Oxnard, Calif., charging shipment by said defendant in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act as amended, on or about January 23, 1936, from the 
State of California into the State of Massachusetts of a quantity of an article 
labeled "Curarina De Juan Salas Nieto" that was misbranded.
Analysis of the article showed that it was essentially a water-alcohol solution 
of drug extractives containing alcohol (about 31.5 percent by volume), solids 
(about 1.0 gram per cubic centimeter), ash (0.27 gram per 100 cubic centi- 
meters), and traces of resin, sapon-like glucosides, and alkaloids.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that statements regarding its 
curative and therapeutic effects, on the bottle labels and cartons and in a book- 
let enclosed in the cartons, falsely and fraudulently represented that it would 
be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for sciatica, affections of the 
sciatic nerve, rheumatism, blood poisoning, insect bites, mumps, malaria fever, 
cuts, sores, disorders of the body, arthritis, neuritis, rheumatism in its many 
forms, rheumatism in the legs, back, and ankles, pain in the right side of the 
abdomen, diabetes, diabetic trouble, 80 percent of all other ailments, tonsillitis, 
colitis, colds, grippe, lung and other bodily disorders, pneumonia, influenza, flu, 
whooping cough, tetanus, high blood pressure, blood pressure, animal poisons, 
bites of black widow spiders, snakes, and mad dogs, and stings of scorpions, 
centipedes, stingarees, wasps, enormous silver-white ants, spiders, and bees, 
miasmatic fevers, malaria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, high fever, smallpox, 
black vomit, hemorrhages, wounds, and bleeding, nasal hemorrhages, female 
hemorrhages, affections of the stomach, lientery, appendicitis, stomach trouble, 
run-down condition, distemper in animals, trench mouth, swollen throat, swollen 
ankles, kidney trouble, severe sick headaches, ptomaine poisoning, Primula 
poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, poison oak or ivy, yellow jaundice, skin 
infection and eczema in dogs; effective to make the worst animal or insect sting 
absolutely harmless to the body; effective to restore to normal health one who 
is affected with angina pectoris, angina spasms, anginal pains, heart disease, 
heart diseases, enlargement of the heart, arterio sclerosis, systolic murmur and 
booming, heart ailments, sharp pains in the heart, dull, aching pains in the 
heart, weak valve in the heart, and other heart trouble; effective as a treat- 
ment for ailments of the nervous system; and effective to kill germs in the blood 
stream, as a tonic, to reduce the pain and stop the progress of cancer, to tone 
up the whole system, and to keep one in perfect health.
On December 12, 1936, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and December 
28, 1936, the court imposed a fine of $40.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
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