13101. Misbranding of Dr. Sayman's -wonder bei-bs. TJ. S. v. 48 Packages 
of Dr. Sayman's Wonder Herbs. Default decree entered. Product 
ordered destroyed.     (F. & D. No. 19102.     S. No. (^4514.)
On November 3, 1924, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 48 packages of Dr. Sayman's wonder herbs, re- 
maining in the original unbroken packages at Chattanooga, Tenn., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the T. M. Sayman Products Co., St. 
Louis, Mo., on or about June 1, 1922, and transported from the State of 
Missouri into the State of Tennessee, and charging misbranding in violation 
of the food and drugs act as amended. The article was labeled in part: (Tin 
box) " Composed Of Roots, Herbs And Barks * * * Sayman's Wonder 
Herbs A Blood Medicine * * * A Boon For Suffering Women * * * 
Guaranteed," (circular) "All Herbs," (carton) " Sayman's Wonder Herbs 
A Blood Medicine * * * Regulates the Liver and Kidneys, cleanses the 
Blood, and aids Digestion * * * For * * * Dyspepsia, Loss of Appe- 
tite * * * Sick Headache * * * LaGrippe, Chills and Fever, Inter- 
mittent or Remittent Fever, Weak or Impaired Kidneys * * * Female- 
Complaints and Blood Poison * * * Beneficial to Women suffering 
from those ailments peculiar to their sex. A valuable treatment for La- 
Grippe, and its after effects, Malaria, Chills, Fever or Ague, and all diseases- 
arising from an impure or impoverished condition of the blood. * * * 
disorders of the stomach, liver, and kidneys," (small circular) "The Bitter- 
that is needed for the Blood and the Gall Bladder is furnished through the- 
medium of Sayman's WTonder Herbs-the greatest Blood and Liver Medicine 
ever compounded * * * an effective Blood Medicine," (retail price list) 
" for the blood, stomach, liver and kidneys."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted essentially of a mixture of gentian, 
ginger, rhubarb, licorice, cascara sagrada, buchu, senna, and sodium car- 
bonate or bicarbonate.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
above-quoted statements appearing in the labeling, regarding the curative and 
therapeutic effects of the said article, were false, fraudulent, and misleading, 
in that it contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of 
producing the effects claimed, and was not a cure and relief for the com- 
plaints and ailments advertised, stated, and claimed as above.
On January 5, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of the court was entered, finding the product misbranded, and it was 
ordered by the court that it be destroyed by the United States marshal.
JR. W. DTJNLAP, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture.