22365. Misbranding of Watkins Liniment.    U. S. v. 65 Bottles of "Watkins \
Liniment.    Product released under bond to be relabeled.     (F. & D. i
no. 31637.    Sample no. 63636-A.)
Examination of a sample of Watkins Liniment showed that it contained no 
ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing certain curative 
and therapeutic effects claimed in the labeling.
On or about November 28, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western        ! 
District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the  Secretary of Agriculture, '
filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation  of 65 
bottles of Watkins  Liniment at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about August 29, 1933, by the 
Watkins Medicine Co., from Cherokee, Kans., and charging misbranding in vie        ' 
lation 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 turpentine oil, eucalyptol, small proportions of methyl 
salicylate, chloroform, and alcohol (62 percent by volume), and water. 
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It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the 
labeling bore false and fraudulent representations regarding its effectiveness 
in the treatment of stomach, liver, kidney and blood diseases, rheumatism, 
lame  back,   toothache,   earache,  sore  throat,  croup,   catarrh,   asthma,  ague, 
cramps,  colic,   diarrhoea,   cholera,   dyspepsia,   inflammation  of  the  kidneys, 
catarrh of the head, diabetes, diphtheria, caked breast, fruited feet, swellings,        , 
tumors, sore nipples, stiff and enlarged joints, all diseases of inflammatory        , 
nature, deafness, fever, congestive chills, bites of snakes, tarantulas, and centi-        , 
pedes, dog bites, bunions, sore and bleeding gums, scurvy of the mouth, cough, 
bronchial affections, cholera morbus, blind, bleeding, and itching piles, sore 
eyes, painful menstruation, womb disease, pains in the back or side, contracted 
chord and muscles, ulcers, skin diseases, pimples, boils, felons, salt rheum, 
ringworm, scald head, erysipelas, gonorrhea, and all painful affections;   (for 
horses and cattle) colic, contraction or cracking of the hoof, distemper, scours, 
sweeny, curb, lameness, " corks ", horn distemper, garget, and all sores.
On April 21, 1934, Boy E. Bertholf, trading as the Watkins Medicine Co., 
Cherokee, Kans., having appeared as claimant for the property, judgment was 
entered ordering that the product be released to the claimant upon the filing ', 
of cashier's check in the amount of $50, to be held in the nature of a bond to 
insure that the product be relabeled so that it comply with the Food and 
Drugs Act.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.