0306. Misbranding of Dr. A. W. Cliase's Nerve Pills.   U. S.   *  *  *   v. 9 Dozen Packages of 
*   *   *   Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture,
and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 13432.   I. s. No. 10028-t.   S. No. W-714.)
On or about September 2, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict of California, 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 con- 
demnation of 9 dozen packages of Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills, remaining in the
original unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y., in part on or about 
March 20, 1920, and in part on or about May 25, 1920, and transported from the State 
of New York into the State of California, and charging misbranding in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed that the pills consisted essentially of strychnine, arsenic, ferrous carbonate, a 
salt of manganese, and aloes.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason that it 
was labeled in part as follows, "Builds up the System Cures * * * Nervous 
Prostration * * * Nervous Headache Female Trouble * * * Heart Fail- 
ure Dizziness & Fainting Sleeplessness and General Weakness," (circular) "Hys- 
teria, Hystero-epilepsy, Epilepsy, St. Vitus dance, Paralysis, Locomotor-Ataxia, 
Insanity * * * await * * * the chance to enter. The Cure Is alone found 
in Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills. A medicine rich in all the elements that go to 
make rich red blood and to supply the hungry nerves with proper nourishment, a 
medicine that supplies what is lacking, the very essence of existence, the active 
principle of life—Nerve Force * * * Sexual Wrecks * * * in Dr. A. W. 
Chase's Nerve Pills, the victim of excess finds a medicine that reaches the seat of 
trouble and cures * * * re-invigorates, by re-supplying the very essential of 
health, Nerve Force. Once this health-giving force reaches the relaxed and debili- 
tated organ in proper quantity, the organ begins to rebuild itself and takes its place 
as capable as ever of carrying'out its work   *   *   *   Occasional irregularity,  or
* * * slight and fearfully painful menstruation * * * the absence of a healthy 
flow * * * a complete relaxation and loss of power upon the part of the uterine 
organs * * * It is in such cases as these * * * that * * * Nerve Pills 
show their sterling qualities * * * by re-supplying the element lacking, Nerve 
Force * * * Sterility * * * The * * * use of * * * Nerve Pills 
always results in an awakening and return of power to those organs * * * Girl- 
hood to womanhood * * * Nerve Pills * * * by their ability to supply a 
world of nerve force and physical energy and to manufacture the richest quality of 
blood, makes the passage   *   *   *   easy and safe   *   *   *   Feeble Little Ones
* * * due to Diphtheria, Measles, Scarlet Fever, etc. * * * Nothing could 
reach * * * in a more rapid or happy manner than do * * * Nerve Pills, 
a preparation designed expressly to furnish to these weak and puny little ones all 
that is essential to their re-building and re-invigorating   *   *   *   A   True Tonic
* * * results once obtained are doubly certain and lasting * * * This is the 
only medicine that cures by rebuilding, re-invigorating and re-supplying what is lack- 
ing—good blood and nerve force," which statements were false and fraudulent in 
that the said article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capa,ble 
of producing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed.
On April 6, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the prod- 
uct be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.