Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-09-24
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Government Exposes Fraudulent
Claims of Patent Medicines.

Washington, ID c., Sept. 1S.-More
tan hait Il hundred legal actions have
been terminated successfully under
the Sherley amendment to the food
and drugs act, which prohibits false
and fraudulent claims as to to curative
or therapeutic effects of drugs or med
the manufacturers aoin taoinlaimsc
lclnes. Criminal prosecutions against
the manufacturers were brought i'm
twenty-five cases, but in thirty-one
cases the fraudulently labeled medi-
cines were seized while in interstate
commerce. Claims made by the man
ufacturers for the curative powers of
these preparations ranged from tu-
berculosis, smallpox, and diphtheria to
coughs, colds and scalp diseases.
Inc Houchens Medicine Company,
OF Baltimore, Mr., pleaded guilty TO
inc charge that preparation called
Family Physician and Clipped by
them into Interstate commerce was
falsely and frauduently labeled.
Among the many diseases for which
THIS medicine was recommended bv
the manufacturers in statements an
pearlng on the labels and accom-
panying circulars were diphtheria.
scarlet fever, typhoid fever, small
poN bronchitis, neuralgia, Group and
all diseases of the throat and lungs.
Analysis of the product showed
that 1t was syrup containing 1872
per cent non-volatile matter, SO per
cent. alcohol, anise and a Vegetable
cathartic drug. The court imposed a
line of $500.
a plea of guilty was entered bv II
A. lngham Il Co., of Vergennes, VT,
to the charge that statements and
claims as to curative powers of n
product called CDR. IL. a. Ingham's
Vegetable Expectorant Nervine Pain
EXTRACTOR" were false and fraudulent.
-Four thousand and ninety-two bot
ties of Father Johns Medeicine" were
seized in Philadelphia, Pa, it being
alleged in the libel that the labelss on
the bottles and on the pastboard pack
ages containing the bottles bore state
ments regarding the curative effects
OF the medicine that were false and
fraudulent.
The following list includes other
preparations against which the gov
ernment's charge that they were false
~ or fraudlently labeled was sustain
ed by the federal courts. Statements
were made in the labels or or on the
circulars accompanying the prepara-
ions intended to make the puschas-
er DelleVc that the medicines were eff
lectiVe cures for a great varity of
diseases, for when they were rec
commended by the manufacturers or
promoters. The main allegations of
the government were upheld by the
courts and judgment accordingly en-
tered in connection with each of the
following preparations:
Radam's Microbe Killer. Hilton's
Specific, Smiths Agricultural Lini-
ment, DIR. Sullivan's Sure Solvent.
RusselPs White Drops, Stramoline,
Wild Cherry Pepsin, Moreau's Wine
OF Anise, DR.. Herman Koch's Brand
Swissco Hair and Scalp Remedy. Cod
Liver Oil with Syrup OF Tar, DR.. Mo-
ley's Lemon Elixir, Sa-Ya Mint Ju-
Jubes, Gray's Glycerinc Tonic Com
pond, DR.. MartePs Female Pills,
Qulckstep, f'rye's Remedy, Seakright's
Magnetism Litha Water, Hills Arc
matte Extract Cod Liver Oil. (Hol-
Iander-koshland Company Blacks
Iuimcnlc Syrup, Tetterinc, Laxative
Quinine Tablets, Mrs. Joe Persons
Remedy, Maignen Antiscptic Powder.
Cranitonic Scalp Food Hair Food. DIR.
David kennedy's Cal-Cura Solvent,
Sehneck's Pulmonic Syrup, Keller's
niaXseed!ine, TUFTS pills, Universal
rheumatic remedy, Green Mountain
OIl, Weber's Genuine Alpine Herb.
Tea, Montague's Linment, Goes
Cough Balsam, White Stone Lithia
Water, kalamazoo Celery and Sarsa-
parllla, Cassidy's Ak. the Great Blood
Purifier, Porter's Antiseptic Healing
on, Billiards. Horehound Syrup.
Comp. DR.. Shoots Night Cure. Dr.
Shops Cough Remedy, DR.. Shoop's
Restorative, Rhemacide, Rice Moth
ers. Joy. Salve, Milan, Old Jim
Fields Phosphate Dill and Gin, Stu
arts Buchu and Juniper Compound,
Oz21mulslon, Jones Break Up, Cars
Welrs Liver Aid. DR.. Shops Twenty
Minute Cough Remedy, Rogers Con-
sumption Cure and Cough Lozenges,
Rogers Inhalant.