8074. Misbranding- of Black Caps. IT. S. * * * v. 15 Packages, More or?
Less, Bach Containing 6 Boxes of a Brag' Known as Black Cans.?
Default deeree of condemnation, forfeitnre, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 10840.    I. S. No. 7198-r.    S.  No. C-13G8.)
On July 22,1919, the United States attorney for the District of Indiana, 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 a?
certain quantity of a certain drug, labeled in part " Black Caps," remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages at New Albany, Ind., alleging that the?
article had been shipped on or about September 13, 191S, by the Safety Remedy?
Co., Canton, Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of?
Indiana, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by tlie Bureau of Chemistry of this de??
partment showed that it consisted of capsules containing essentially powdered?
cubebs, saw palmetto, and copaiba.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel in that certain?
statements regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the article, appearing?
on the carton enclosing, and in the circular accompanying the article, falsely?
and fraudulently represented the article to be effective as a treatment of in??
flammatory affections of the genito-urinary organs* * * * stimulant to the?
mucous membranes, especially of the genito-urinary tract, rendering prompt
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service in the relief of inflamed or irritated conditions of the passages, through?
the medication of the exposed mucous surfaces, chronic cystitis (inflammation?
of the bladder), resulting from gonorrhoea, Icucorrhoea, vaginal gonorrhoea, sub??
acute and chronic pyelitis, atonic impotence * * * prostatic abscess, chronic?
inflammation of the vesical neck (bladder), accompanied by tenesmus (in??
effectual straining), nocturnal and incontinence of urine, and the component,?
drugs entering into this prescription to be primarily among the best * * *?
in the treatment of specific urethritis (simple gonorrhoea), whereas, in truth and?
in fact, it was not effective.
On February 24, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment 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,