7437. Misbranding of Tlie Grossman Mixture. II. S. * * * v. 6 Coasen 
Bottles of The Grossman Mixture.- Default decree of condemnation, 
forfeiture, and destruction.     (P. & D. No. 10258.    I.  S. No.  2170-r.     S.
No.  W-343.)
On May 7, 191Q, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 6 dozen bottles of The Grossman Mixture at Los Angeles, 
Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped on March 29, 1919, by the 
Wright's Vegetable Pill Co., New York, N. Y., and transported from the State 
of New York into the State of California, and charging misbranding in viola-, 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.   The article was labeled in part,
" The Crossman Mixture * * * Recommended for the treatment of not 
only the active stages of simple Urethritis and of Gonorrhcea, but especially 
of sub-acute and chronic conditions, as Gleet." (Circular) "The Crossman 
Mixture for the Treatment of Gonorrhcea and Gleet   *    *    *."
Analysis of a sample made in the Bureau of Chemistry of .this, department 
showed that the article consisted essentially of a mixture of volatile oils, in- 
cluding copaiba and cubebs, and alcohol.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the'rea- 
son that the therapeutic effects, claimed for the article as a treatment for 
urethritis, gonorrhcea, and gleet, on the bottle label and wrapper, and in the 
circular, were false and fraudulent in that the article contained no ingredient or 
combination of ingredients capable of producing the therapeutic effects claimed 
for it.
On August 27, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.