Drown

The appellant, Dr. Drown, is a chiropractor who' does business in Hollywood, California under the name of Drown Laboratories. Appellant manufactures certain photographic, therapeutic and diagnostic instruments of her own design which she uses in her practice. She sold one of these instruments to a Mr. Rice, resident of Blue Island, Illinois, for which s’he was charged with selling a device that was misbranded, in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.A. § 301 et seq., by reason of claims in its labeling which were allegedly false and misleading both with respect to the particular instrument sold to Rice and with respect to another instrument also designed by the appellant.

Fantastic therapeutic and diagnostic qualities are claimed by appellant for her in struments in their labeling. The Drown Radio- Therapeutic Instrument, the device whose sale resulted in her arrest, is represented as capable of eliminating a lump in the breast and preventing cancer therefrom ; as efficacious in treating kidney and bladder complications, tipped uterus, extra kidney, painful urination, streptococcus in the urethra and the pyloric end of the stomach and bladder, cirrhosis…