3 3454.   -Misbranding of Hill's kaskarn tablets.    IT. S. v. W. H. Hill Co.    Plea 
of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 9910.    I. S. No. 9801-p.)
On September 18, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the W. H. Hill Co., a corporation, Detroit, Mich., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act as amended, on or about May 
23, 1918, from the State of Michigan into the State of Illinois, of a quantity 
of Hill's kaskara tablets which were misbranded. The article was labeled in 
part: " Mf'd Only By W. H. Hill Co., Detroit, Mich."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was an iron, chalk, and sugar-coated tablet con- 
taining emodin, aromatics, juniper resins, and caffein.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that certain statements, borne on the package containing the said 
article and in the accompanying circular, falsely and fraudulently represented 
it to be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for backache, renal calculi, 
diabetes, Bright's disease, urinary and bladder troubles, liver and kidney 
troubles, kidney diseases and consumption of the kidneys, and effective for
the kidneys to healthy action, so they would separate the urine and other 
morbid products from the blood and thereby prevent the formation of uric 
acid and other calculus products, as effective as a treatment, remedy, and 
cure for acute inflammation of the kidneys, dropsical swelling, rheumatism, 
and neuralgia, as effective to strengthen the kidneys, subdue inflammation, 
and restore their blood cleansing and diuretic or urine gathering functions, as 
effective to put a stop to disintegration of the kidneys and prevent the escape 
of albumen or sugar into the urine, to cause the violence of all disease symp- 
toms to subside rapidly, to correct disorders of the urine, to diminish dropsical 
conditions, and gradually to eliminate the poisonous uric acid in the blood, as 
effective to cause the whole system to be cleansed, stimulated, and strengthened, 
to cause the kidneys, liver, and stomach to work harmoniously in stimulating 
morbid products and retoning diseased organs, as effective to neutralize the 
uric, lactic, and lithic acids in the blood, eliminating through the kidneys, 
bowels, and skin all morbid and unhealthy accumulations from the system, 
and effective as a solvent for calculus or stone in the kidney or bladder, and 
to prevent the formation of an excess of uric acid, calculus, stone or gravel, 
and effective as a relief and cure for all disorders arising from a weak or 
diseased condition of the kidneys and liver, when, in truth and in fact, it 
contained no ingredients or medicinal agents effective for the purposes claimed. 
On November 25, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.