27546. Misbranding of  W.  H.  Bull's  Quick Pile  Relief.     TT.   S. v.  W.  H.  Bull
Medicine Co., Inc., and Harley E. Houts. Pleas of guilty. Corporation 
fined $200 and costs. Harley E. Houts fined $50. (F. & D. No. 38685. 
Sample No. 4700-C.)
The labeling of this product bore false and fraudulent curative and thera- 
peutic claims and false and misleading representations regarding its alleged 
antiseptic properties.
? On May 17, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the W. H. Bull Medicine Co. Inc., St. Louis, 
Mo., and Harley E. Houts, alleging shipment by said defendants in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act as amended on or about September 11, 1936, from 
the State of Missouri into the State of Oklahoma of a quantity of W. H. Bull's 
Quick Pile Relief which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
"W. H. Bull Med. Co., St. Louis, Mo."
Analysis showed that the article consisted essentially of pine tar and small 
amounts of phenol and tannic acid incorporated in a base of petrolatum. Bac- 
teriological tests showed that it was not antiseptic.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that certain statements,' designs, and 
devices regarding its curative and therapeutic effects, appearing in the labeling, 
falsely and fraudulently represented that it was effective as a quick pile relief, 
as a treatment, remedy, and cure for external piles, anal fissure, internal, pro- 
truding, itching, or bleeding piles, hemorrhoids, boils, carbuncles, cuts, burns, 
old sores, and foul ulcers; and as a healing agent wherever required. It was 
alleged to be misbranded further in that the statement "antiseptic," borne on 
the package and box, was false and misleading since it was not an antiseptic.
On July 13, 1937, pleas of guilty were entered on behalf of the defendants, 
and the court imposed a fine of $200 and costs against the corporation and 
$50 against Harley E. Houts.
HARET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.