9458. Misbranding of   Black   Diamond    Oil.     TJ.    S.     *     *      *     v.   Frank    A.
Cfoodwin (Dr. F. A. Goodwin).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.     (F. & D.
No.  13170.    I.  S. No. 8138-r.)
On November 30, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Frank A. Goodwin, trading as Dr. F. A. Goodwin, Chicago, Ill., alleging ship- 
ment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, 
on or about February 27, 1920, from the State of Illinois into the State- of 
Missouri, of a quantity of Black Diamond Oil which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted chiefly of a light petroleum product, cotton- 
seed oil, tar, and a small amount of capsicum.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the thera- 
peutic and curative effects thereof, appearing on the labels of the bottles con- 
taining the article and in wrappers accompanying the same, falsely and fraudu- 
lently represented it to be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for pneu- 
monia, colds, sore throat, cough, la grippe, croup, colic, diarrhea, cramps, ear- 
ache, rheumatism, neuralgia, deafness, sciatica, lumbago, headache, inflammatory 
rheumatism, piles, and gout, vrhen, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On April 2, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100.
C. W. PUGSLEY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.