4832. Misbranding of Turpentine Man's, or Tydings' Remedy. TJ. S.?
v. Charles Tydings et al (Charles Tydings & Co.). Flea of guilty.?
Pine, $5 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 6012.    I. S. No. 6077-e.)
On April 24, 1915, 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 of the United States for said district an information against Charles?
Tydings and Edith Tydings, copartners, trading under the firm name of Charles?
Tydings & Co., Oeala, Ma., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about February 20, 1913, from?
the State of Florida into the State of Georgia, of a quantity of Turpentine?
Man's or Tyding's Remedy, which was misbranded. The article was labeled:?
(On bottle) "This Label adopted July, 1909. (Trade mark) Turpentine?
Man's Registered No. 42413, or Tydings' Remedy Formerly called Turpen??
tine Man's Sure Cure for Pock For Blood Diseases of all Kinds and Rheuma??
tism Price, $1.50 Directions: Take one teaspoonful in glass of water after?
each meal, and take Tydings' Blossoms, as needed to clean out the system. Use?
Terkeeween Oil Nerve and Bone Liniment, or Turpentine Mans' Kidney Plasters?
for all aches and pains, 250 each. Guaranteed by Tydings & Co., under the?
Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 1906. No. 17788. Tydings & Co., manu??
facturers, 27 South Main Street, Ocala, Florida." The pamphlet accompanying?
the article contained, among other things, the following: " The use of 1 bottle?
will convince the most skeptical of the real merits of ' Turpentine Man's' or?
Tydings' Remedy and will enable anybody to test its wonderful power in re??
storing and invigorating the whole system; in renovating and enriching the?
blood; in giving an appetite and a tone to the stomach, in curing, and in thor??
oughly eradicating Pock, Scrofula, Scrofulous Humors, Scald-Head, Syphilitic?
Affections, Cancerous Humors and growths, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Boils Pim??
ples and Humors on the face, Catarrh, Headaches, Dizziness, Faintness, Sick?
Stomach, Constipation Pains in the Back, Female Diseases of all kinds, General?
Debility and Rheumatism, and all diseases, arising from an impmre state or low?
condition of the blood." " * * * It positively aids and strengthens weak and?
impaired and debilitated organs; invigorates the nervous system; tones and?
strengthens the digestive organs, and imparts new life and vigor to all the?
organs of the body. The peculiar points of this medicine are that it does not?
weaken, but builds up and strengthens the whole system while it drives out?
and eradicates disease from the system."
Analysis of a different sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this department showed the following results :
Potassium iodid (percent)?
    7.44
Alcohol  (percent)?
    4.9
Salicylic acid (percent)?-?
   0.3
Glucose (percent)?
64.3
Sugar  (percent)?
    2.86
Traces of sulphates, phosphates, calcium, ammonium salt, and an?
unidentified alkaloid.?
Product is a glucose sirup containing potassium iodid, alcohol,?
and traces of salicylic acid, phosphates, calcium, and an alkaloid.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
the following statements regarding the therapeutic or curative effects thereof,?
appearing on the label aforesaid, to wit, " * * * for Blood Diseases of all?
Kinds * * *," and included in the circular or pamphlet aforesaid, to wit,?
" * * * its wonderful power in * * * curing and in thoroughly eradi??
cating * * * Cancerous * * * growths, * * * Salt Rheum, * * *?
Catarrh    *    *    *    Female Diseases of all kinds,    *    *    *    and all diseases
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arising from an impure state or low condition of the blood," were false and?
fraudulent in that the same were applied to the article knowingly, and in?
ieckless and wanton disregard of their truth or falsity, so as to represent?
falsely and fraudulently to the purchasers thereof, and create in the minds?
of purchasers thereof the impression and belief, that it was, in whole or in?
part, composed of, or contained, iDgredients or medicinal agents effective, among?
other things, as a remedy for blood diseases of all kinds, in curing and in?
thoroughly eradicating cancerous growths, salt rheum, catarrh, female diseases?
of all kinds, and all diseases arising from an impure state or low condition of?
the blood, when, in truth and in fact, it was not, in whole or in part, composed?
of, and did not contain, such ingredients or medicinal agents. Misbranding?
was alleged for the further reason that the article contained 4.9 per cent?
alcohol, and its package failed to bear a statement on the label of the quantity?
or proportion of the alcohol contained therein.
On January 18, 1916, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant?
firm, and the court imposed a fine of $5 and costs.
GAEL VBOOMAN,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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