9681. Misbranding of Dr. A. V. Banes' female pills. U. §. * * * v. Ar- 
tilens Valerius Banes >(Dr. A. V. Banes' Medicine Co.). Plea of 
guilty.    Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 11646.    I. S. No. 5946-r.)
On May 25, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Dr. Artilens Valerius Banes, trading as the Dr. A. V. Banes' Medicine Co., St. 
Joseph, Mo., alleging shipment by said defendant, on or about October 14,1918, 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from the State of Mis- 
souri into the State of Kansas, of a quantity of Dr. A. V. Banes' female pills 
which were misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the pills consisted essentially of compounds of calcium, 
magnesium, and iron, including carbonate and sulphate, mercury, capsicum, 
sugar, and aloes.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the information for 
the reason that certain statements, designs, and devices regarding the thera- 
peutic and curative effects thereof, appearing on the cartons containing the 
said article, falsely and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a pre- 
ventive, treatment, remedy, and cure for disorders of menstruation, nervous 
headache, pains in back and sides, nervous prostration, general debility, sleep- 
lessness, depression, indigestion, neuralgia, and all scrofulous diseases, and 
as a treatment for conditions due to change of life, when, in truth and in 
fact, it was not.
On September 22, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.