9539. Misbranding of Wendell's Ambition Brand pills. U. S. * * * v„ 12 
Dozen Packages, et al., of Wendell's Ambition Brand Pills. Default 
decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 
13515, 13539, 13540, 13541. I. S. Nos. 1735-t, 481-t, 1745-t, 491-t. S. Nos. 
C-2123, C-2124, C-2125, C-2166.)
On August 30. 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district libels for the seizure and con-
demnation of approximately 53B dozen, small size, and 9M dozen, large size, 
packages of Wendell's Ambition Brand pills, remaining unsold at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, consigned by the Wendell Pharmacal Co., Inc., Syracuse, N. Y., on or 
about January 22, 1920, August 22, 1919, and March 22, May 21, and July 6, 
1920, respectively, alleging that the article had been shipped from Syracuse,. 
N. Y., and transported from the State of New York into the State of Ohio, 
and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.. 
The article was labeled in part: (Carton) "* * * Pills Ambition Brand 
Beneficial in the treatment of * * * Nervous Debility, Sleeplessness, De- 
spondency, Mental Depression, Hysteria, Nervous Headaches, Dyspepsia, Indi- 
gestion,    *    *    *   Affections of the Nervous System."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that the pills consisted essentially of quinine, aloes, and nux 
vomica.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libels for the- 
reason that the above-quoted statements appearing on the cartons containing 
the article, regarding the curative and therapeutic effects thereof, were false 
and fraudulent in that the said article contained no ingredient or combina- 
tion of ingredients capable of producing the effects claimed, and in that it was- 
insufficient of itself for the successful treatment and cure of the ailments and 
diseases for which it was prescribed and recommended.
On February 19, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the- 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,