S904.  Mifsttronttints   of   Dr.   Harper's    \nli~Oholei'?   Tonic   fox-   Hogs.     V.   S.
* * * -?.7 DOKCU Packages of Dr. Harper's Anti-Cholera Tonic?
for Hos^s. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de??
struction. (F. & D. No. 11787. I. S. Nos. 8722-r, 8723-r, 8724-r. S. No.?
C-loGo.)
On December 37, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Oklahoma, 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 7 dozen packages of Dr. Harper's Anti-Cholera Tonic for?
Hogs, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Strang, Okla.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about June 23, 1919, by the?
Elite Chemical Co., Watertown, Tenn., and transported from the State of?
Tennessee into the State of Oklahoma, and charging misbranding in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The article was labeled in part: " Dr.?
Harper's Anti-Cholera Tonic for Hogs   Given to prevent diseases of swine   For
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worms * * * ' How to Prevent Cholera' * * * How to Prevent Hog-?
Cholera y * * About e-*ery other day give to each hog a tablespooirful of?
Dr. Harper's Anti-Cholera * * * in most cases acts as preventive to dis??
ease >:' * * 'Use Anti-Cholera and you will have no sick hogs to cure. Your?
hogs will gain in weight and the meat will he free from disease."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it consisted of a mixture essentially of sodium bicar??
bonate and sulphate, sulphur, iron oxid, and plant material, including fragments?
of seeds and hulls.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded for?
the reason that the cartons enclosing the same and the circulars inside the?
carton* bore, and contained the above-named statements, regarding the curative?
and therapeutic effects of said article and of the ingredients and substances?
contained therein, which were false and fraudulent in that said drug con??
tained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the?
curative and therapeutic effects claimed for it on the cartons and in the cir??
culars, as aforesaid.
On February 25, 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, Avtiny Sccietanj of Agriculture.