Show KIDNEY CURES SEIZED action against several so called kidney cures has recent ly been taken under the food and drugs act by the united states department of Ag agriculture Ticul in one case the shippers of a preparation labeled as A sure cure for bladder and kidney trouble were prosecuted GO the charge of falsely arid fraud misbranding the act they pleaded guilty and weri were fined 25 and costs by the court this particular cular kidney cure was found to contain over 41 per cent of alcohol it was labeled old jim melds fields phate dill and gin Man kinds greatest friend A sure cure for bladder and kidney trouble it is also a great aid in case of urinary trouble allenberg sole agents memphis tenn an analysis of the product showed that it coata contained ined no material amount of either dill or phosphate in another case 48 bottles of Stu stuarts ares and juniper jumper compound prepared by the stuart manufacturing company atlanta Atlant georgia were seized the court issued a decree of condemnation dem nation forfeiture and destruction st on the ground that the claims upon the label were misleading false and fraudulent on this label the manufacturers recommended their product as a remedy for a great varie variety ty of kidney and bladder diseases and stated instated th that at the medicine contained 16 per cent of alcohol according to the medical experts of the department alcohol i is a kidney irritant and is dangerous in man cases of kidney disease por for this chis reason many physicians advise their patients who suffer from any kind of kidney or bladder trouble to abstain from the use of alcohol eve even n in moderate quantities some manufacturers of kidney medicines which contain considerable quantities of alcohol also advise their customers to abstain from all alcoholic drinks showing in this way that they know the harmfulness of in kidney diseases even though they use it in their own preparations it is the opinion of the medical experts of the department that such so aa called kidney remedies as those recently seized are not only worthless but actually harmful because of the amount of alcohol which they contain |