' Misbranding of Rice's remedy.    U.S. v. 63 Bottles ot Rice's Remedy. 
Default   decree   of   condemnation  and   destruction.     (F.  &  D.  no.
29585.    Sample no. 16083-A.)
Examination of the drug preparation, Rice's remedy, disclosed that the article 
contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing 
certain curative and therapeutic effects claimed on the bottle label and in a 
circular shipped with the article.
On December 6, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Connecti- 
cut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 63 bottles of the said Rice's remedy, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Hartford, Conn., alleging that article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about October 21, 1932, by the Rice Colic Remedy 
Co., from Springfield, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., and charging misbranding in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by this Department showed that it con- 
sisted essentially of volatile oils including peppermint oil (3.2 percent), ether, 
extracts of plant drugs, including nux vomica, alcohol (83.9 percent), and water.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the labeling 
bore false and fraudulent statements regarding its curative and therapeutic ef- 
fects in all kinds of stomach and bowel troubles, pains, aches, throat troubles, 
nauseated sick stomach, chills, toothache, fainting spells, gases near the heart 
called " heart attack", any spasmodic action in muscles of stomach and 
throat, cording of muscles of any part of body, internal inflammation, 
building up before and after operations, helping to digest food by " stimulation 
force action ", gastric troubles, sore throat, cold in body, any bad feelings from 
gases or inflammation, sustaining, giving pep and animation, acute sudden 
attacks and consequences, septic sore throat, heart attack (gases), intestinal 
grip, giving strength, weak heart, neuralgia in muscles of heart, convulsions, 
worms, chills, " tummie " ache, nervous people, gall stones, hemorrhages, coma, 
dysentery, drunkenness, earache, sore mouth, canker, paralysis, acid stomach, 
poison in stomach, internal inflahimation, pains in chest, body, and stomach, 
bite of scorpion, bleeding piles, and severe pain.
On January 30, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.