499Z.  aU&Jbranftdiis #>? " $J&&?& 3E. Piiouklfcaaax's  y^ege&a&le   OoatH^ojaaiA."     U. S.?
*    *    *   v. ?L,yAia JE.. PtaJtenaw. ateflieiaxe Co^ a je?JKpoic?.taU>?L.    Plea of
nolo contendere.    SFAjne, #50.     (F. & D. No. 6550.    I. S. No. 7981-e.)
On September 17, 1915, the United States attorney for the District of Massa??
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Lydia JE. Pmkham Medicine Co , a corporation, doing business at Lynn, Mass.,?
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
as amended, on or about February 24, 1913, from the State of Massachusetts?
into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of an article labeled, in part, ?' Lj dia E.?
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound," which was misbranded
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed the following results:
Alcohol (per cent by volume)?
17.9
Solids (grams per 100 cc)?
    0.56
Vegetable extractive material: Present.
Alkaloidal material (grams per 100 cc)?
   0. 008
It was charged in substance in the information that the article was mis-?
branded in that the statements on the label and included in the booklet accom??
panying the article, falsely and fraudulently represented that it was effective?
among other things as a remedy for prolapsus uteri, or falling of the womb,?
leucorrhea and inflammation and ulceration of the womb, for curing the dis??
eases of women, and for all female ailments and affections, diseases of the?
bladder and organic affections of the kidneys, and effective as a cure for dys??
menorrhea, menorrhagia, displacement of the uterus forward uterine tumurs?
and diseases of the ovaries, and as a preventive of miscarriage or abortion,?
when, in truth and m fact, it was not.
On -October 20, 1916, the defendant company entered a plea of nolo contendere?
to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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