9309. Misbranding of Lewis Nerve Pills. U.S. * * * v. 3 Dozen Packages of * * * Lewis 
Nerve Pills.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D.
No. 13593.   I.S.No. 10019-t.   S.No. W-700.)
On or about September 2,1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District; 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemna- 
tion of 3 dozen packages of Lewis Nerve Pills, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
A. H. Lewis Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo., in part on or about February 14, 1920, and 
in part on or about May 17, 1920, and transported from the State of Missouri 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 phosphorus, an iron salt, phosphates, 
and strychnine.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason that 
it was labeled in part as follows, (box) "Highly recommended for Nervousness, 
General Debility, Lack of Energy, Self Distrust, Loss of Memory and Diseases arising 
from Mental Worry, Overwork,, Excesses, etc.," which statements were false and 
fraudulent in that the said article contained no ingredient or combination of ingre- 
dients capable 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 product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.