Beverly O'Hare v. Merck & Company, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, Also Known as Merck, Sharp & Dohme

*288MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

This products liability case involves a prescription drug manufactured and sold by appellee Merck & Company, Inc. (defendant below). Beverly O’Hare, a Minnesota citizen, filed suit in federal court to recover damages resulting from the development and subsequent surgical removal of a non-specific lesion in the small intestine, also referred to in the record as an ulcer or bowel lesion. She premised her cause of action on the theory that the lesion was caused by her use of HydroDIURIL Ka-50, hereinafter referred to as Ka-50. Between January 17, 1964 and April 15, 1964,…