Quack Cure Bottle - A TEXAS WONDER

Description

This little bottle stands about 3 and 1/2 inches high.  Embossed
A TEXAS WONDER / E.W. HALL, ST. LOUIS. MO
.  The bottle is in nice shape except it needs a good cleaning as it has some haze inside.
In researching this bottle I found a lawsuit with the Federal Food and Drug Act,
Case # 7336 - Misbranding of A Texas Wonder. U. S. v. 136 bottles of Texas Wonder.  Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
The case states "On April 28, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 136 bottles of
A TEXAS WONDER
, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Oklahoma City, Okla., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about April 3, 1919, by EW. Hall, St. Louis, Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Oklahoma, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drug Act, as amended.  Analysis of a sample by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed that the article consisted of
oleoresin of copaiba, rhubarb, turpentine, guaiac, and alcohol."
The case goes on to state the labels and circulars which were with the 136 bottles claimed "
A TEXAS WONDER
for Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Diabetes, Weak and Lame Backs, Rheumatism and Gravel, regulates Bladder Trouble in Children etc.". It sites an example of a man that took the "remedy" and was cured of his ailments. The case states "...regarding the curative and therapeutic effects thereof and of the ingredients and substances contained therein, which were false and fraudulent in that the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the therapeutic effects claimed for it."   As a result of the case - it concludes by stating "On October 16, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. C.F. Marvin,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
.
A nice opportunity of own a "real" quack medicine......