9783. Misbranding of Dr. A. W,  Chase's  nerve  pills.    U.  S.     *     *      *     v.  3
Dozen Packages * * * of * * * Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve 
Pills. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 13260.    I. S. No. 11686-t.     S. No. C-2130.)
On August 13, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Kentucky, 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 
condemnation of 3 dozen packages, more or less, of Dr. A. W. Chase's nerve 
pills, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Louisville, Ky., 
consigned by the Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y., March 27, 1920, 
to Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped from Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the State of Kentucky, and 
charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended. The 
article was labeled in part: (Label) "Builds Up The System Cures Thin & 
Watery Blood Nervous Prostration Nervous Headache Female Trouble Pale 
& Sallow Complexion Heart Failure Dizziness & Fainting Sleeplessness 
And General Weakness * * *"; (circular) "Hysteria, 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 princi- 
ple 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 essen- 
tial of health, Nerve Force. Once this health-giving force reaches the relaxed 
and debilitated organ in proper quantity, the organ begins to rebuild itself, 
and takes its place as capable as ever of carrying out its work,    *    *    *    Oc-
casional 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. * * * Steril- 
ity. * * * the * * * age of * * * Nerve Pills always results in 
an awakening and return of power to those organs * * * Girlhood 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 rebuild- 
ing, re-invigorating, and re-supplying what is lacking—good blood and nerve 
force    *    *    * "
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the pills contained aloes, ferrous sulphate, manganese, 
arsenic, and strychnine.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that the above-quoted statements appearing on the labels of the pack- 
ages containing the article and in the circulars inclosed therein, regarding the 
curative or therapeutic effect of the said article, were false and fraudulent in 
that it contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of pro- 
ducing the effects claimed.
On March 4, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was 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.