7460. Misbranding- of Black-Caps. TJ. S. * * * v. 4 Dozen and 17 Dozen?
Paclvag-es of Black-Caps. Default decrees of condemnation, for??
feiture; and destruction. (P. & D. Nos. 104G0, 10461. I. S. Nos. 15663-r,?
15666-r.    S. Nos. E-1455, E-1456.)
On May 26, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme?
Court of said District, holding a District Court, libels for the seizure and con??
demnation of 4 dozen and 17 dozen packages of Black-Caps, at Washington,?
D. C, alleging that the article had been shipxoed on or about October 28, 1918,?
by Samuel D. Clapp, New York, N. Y., and on or about April 14, 1919, by the?
Black Drug Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., respectively, and transported from the State?
of New York into the District of Columbia, and charging misbranding in vio??
lation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article was labeled in?
part: (On package) "Black-Caps. For the Treatment of Gonorrhoea, Ureth??
ritis, Cystitis and other inflammatory conditions of the Urinary Tract. * * * ;"?
(in circular) "For the Treatment of Inflammatory Affections of the Genito??
urinary Organs * * * stimulant to the mucous membranes, especially of?
the Genito-Urinary tract, * * * the component drugs entering into this?
prescription as primarily among the best drugs we possess in the treatment of?
specific Urethritis (simple Gonorrhoea), * * * chronic Cystitis (inflamma??
tion of the bladder), resulting from Gonorrhoea, Leucorrhoea, Vaginal Gonor??
rhoea, subacute and chronic Pyelitis, atonic impotence. * * * Prostatic?
abscess, chronic inflammation of the vesical neck (bladder)    *    *    *."
Analysis of samples of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it consisted essentially of cubebs and copaiba.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libels for the?
reason that certain statements contained in the labels and circulars were false?
and fraudulent in that they were, severally, statements of the curative or?
therapeutic effect of the article and of the ingredients and substances contained?
therein, which statements were false and fraudulent for the reason that the?
article contained no ingredients or combination of ingredients capable of pro??
ducing the therapeutic effect claimed for it.
On June 18, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments of?
condemnation and forfeiture were 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.