5896. Misbranding of " Dr. E. E. Burnside's Purifico." TT. S. * * * v. 
Charles W. Diffln and Pearl B. Diffln (The Purifico Co.). Pleas of 
guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 6678.    I. S. Nos. 746-k, 747-k, 748-k.)
On May 9, 1916, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Charles W. Diffin and Pearl B. Diffin, copartners, trading as the Purifico Co., 
Buffalo, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about March 5, 1915, from the State of 
New York into the State of Massachusetts, of quantities of articles labeled in 
part, " Dr. E. E. Burnside's Purifico No. 1 or 2 or 3," which were misbranded.
Analysis of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed the following results:
(1)
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
10.4
Methyl alcohol: Absent.
Solids  (per cent) 
20.6
Ash  (percent) 
1.1
Sucrose (Clerget)   (per cent) 
13,0
Reducing sugar   (invert)   (per cent) 
2.5
Glycerin   (per  cent) 
0.8
Potassium iodid  (per cent) 
0. 4
Cinchona alkaloids  (per cent) 
0 14
Chloroform soluble resin  (per cent) 
0.4
Piperine: Present.
Emodin (probably senna) : Present.
Arsenic: Absent.
Mercury: Absent.
Salicylates: Absent.
(2)
Alcohol (per cent by volume)  
9.0
Methyl alcohol: Absent.
Solids  (per cent) 
20.4
Ash (per cent) 
0.8
Sucrose (Clerget)   (percent) 
13.2
Reducing sugar (invert)  (percent) 
2.4
Glycerin   (per cent) 
0.7
Potassium iodid (percent) 
0.6
Cinchona alkaloids   (per cent) 
0.04
Chloroform soluble resin  (per cent 
0.16
Piperine: Present. 
Emodin: Absent. 
Salicylates: Absent. 
Mercury: Absent 
Arsenic: Absent.
(3)
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 
14.3
Solids (per cent) 
20.8
Sucrose   (per cent) 
13.3
Reducing sugar as invert (per cent) 
3.5
Ash   (per cent) 
0.88
Ash   contains   calcium,   magnesium,   chlorin,   phosphorus 
pentoxide, potassium, and sodium.
Emodin: Absent.
Arsenic, mercury, and other heavy metals: Absent.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the articles were mis- 
branded for the reason that certain statements appearing on the labels thereof 
falsely and fraudulently represented them to be effective as a remedy for 
cancer, tumor, all forms of goiter, erysipelas, scrofula, eczema, cancers, tumors, 
salt rheum, and all forms of ulcers, when, in truth and in fact, they were not. 
It was alleged in substance that the articles were misbranded for the further 
reason that certain statements included in the booklet accompanying the 
articles falsely and fraudulently represented them to be effective as a remedy 
for cancer, tumor, all forms of goiter and all unnatural growths, eczema, 
erysipelas, scrofula, impurities of the blood, and infections; to remove from the 
blood all impurities and poisons and to bring all the organic functions to their 
full efficiency; as a remedy for hopeless and desperate cases of cancer, unnat- 
ural growths, and cancerous growths; as a preventive for cancer; as a remedy' 
for all blood diseases; as a cure for cancer of the armpit, cancer of breast 
and cancer of eye; as a remedy for tuberculosis; to remove cancer; as a cure 
for cancerous tumor; to remove internal cancer; as a cure for cancer of lip 
and tongue, cancer of the rectum, cancer of nose, recurring cancer, cancers in 
abdomen and cancer of face and neck; as a remedy for cancer of bowels; 
as a cure for fibroid tumor, fibroid tumor of uterus, tumor on shoulder, fibroid 
tumor on neck; as remedy for fibroid tumor of uterus and rheumatism; as a 
cure for tumor of bowels, goiter, erysipelas, tuberculosis of glands, eczema, 
cancer of face and nervous prostration; as a remedy for fistula and as a cure 
for gall stones, when, in truth and in fact, they were not.
On November 27, 1917, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
OABL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.