26157. Misbranding of uterine.     U.  S. v.  18 Bottles of Fowlerine.     Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 37119. 
Sample no. 62208-B.)
False and fraudulent curative and therapeutic claims were made for this 
article.
On January 27, 1936, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 18 bottles of 
Fowlerine at New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about January 30, 1935, by the Fowler Medicine & 
Chemical Co., Memphis, Tenn., therefrom to New Orleans, La., and charging 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled 
in part:  (Bottle)  "Fowlerine."
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of a sulphurated oil, 
turpentine oil, and methyl salicylate.
Misbranding of the article was charged in that its label and carton bore, 
and a circular enclosed in its package contained, statements regarding the cura- 
tive and therapeutic effects of the article that were false and fraudulent in that 
said statements falsely and fraudulently represented that the article possessed 
curative and therapeutic efficacy when administered in the treatment of kidney, 
bladder, and rheumatic trouble, nervousness, indigestion, disorders of the 
generative organs, cramps, and colic, and that it was of a curative and therapeu- 
tic benefit to women in connection with periodical cramps or suppressions.
On February 22, 1936, no claimant having appeared, a default decree of 
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction was entered.
HABET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.