0161. Misbranding of Gray's Invaluable Ointment. V. S. * * * v. IS 
Dozen Packages * * * of * * * Gray's Invaluable Oint- 
ment. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No.».11237. I. S. No: 
9421-r.    S. No. C-1455.)
On September 16, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastei*LDistrict of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 12 dozen packages, more or less, of Gray's Invaluable Ointment, 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Cairo, Ill.,, consigned by 
W. F. Gray & Co., Nashville, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about August 8, 1919, and transported from the State of Tennessee info 
the State of Illinois, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted essentially of animal fat, linseed oil, bees- 
wax, lead oxid and acetate, and a trace of turpentine.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded for 
the reason that the following statements, appearing on the cartons and in the 
accompanying circulars, regarding the curative, and therapeutic effects of said 
article., (cartons) " * * * For Burns, Scalds, Rheumatism, Tic-Doloreux, 
Poisonous Bites of Spiders, * * * or from having come in contact with 
Poisonous Plants; Broken Breasts, Sore Nipples and Carbuncles, * * * 
Fistula    *    *    *    Injured Spine, Swellings of all kinds,    *    *    *    Sore Throat,
* * *," (circulars) "For the relief of * * * Ulcers of long or short stand- 
ing.    *    *    *    Scrofulous   and   other   Tumors,   including   White   Swellings,
* * * Old or Fresh Wounds, Gunshot Wounds, * * * Swellings and In- 
flammations of all kinds; Rheumatic and other Pains; * * * Scald Head, 
Tetter on the head or any other part of the body; * * * Carbuncles, Can- 
cerous Affections, Gangrene, Eruptions of all kinds; * * * Dog, Snake, 
Spider, and other Poisonous Bites; Broken Breasts, Sore Nipples, * * * 
Injured  Spine;  Sore  Eyes,  Swellings  of  all kinds;    *   *    *    Sore Throat;
* * * Pleurisy and pneumonia, * * * Splint, Wind Galls, * * * 
Fistula, * * * In early stages of Inflammatory Rheumatism and Sore- 
ness about the Breast, * * * this Ointment stands unrivalled. * * * in 
the course of two or three hours, the system is thrown into a gentle perspira- 
tion, and all pains or soreness is rapidly removed * * *," were false and 
fraudulent as the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients 
capable of producing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed in said 
statements.
On December 23, 1919, W. F. Gray & Co., Nashville, Tenn., having appeared 
as claimant of the property, and it appearing to the court that said claimant 
had prepared an amended circular and advertising matter to be used in lieu of 
the circular and advertising matter complained of in this action, and said claim- 
ant having agreed that the goods would not thereafter be sold or offered for 
sale contrary to law, State or Federal, and the parties having agreed that the 
goods might be delivered to said claimant and that the said claimant would 
remove from the packages and destroy thebrands and advertising matter com- 
plained of and would insert upon or inside the packages the circular, brands, 
and advertising matter which had been filed with the Solicitor of this depart- 
ment, and the said claimant company having filed its bond in the sum of $100, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, it was ordered by the court that the 
product be delivered to said claimant and that the case be finally dismissed 
upon payment of all the costs of the proceedings by the said claimant.
3. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.