10582. Misbranding of Dr. Cheeseman's female regulating; pills. IT. S.?
* * * v. 10 Packages of * * * Dr. Cheeseman's Female?
Regulating Pills. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture,?
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 13862.    I. S. No. 10480-t.    S. No. W-791.)
On November 12, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District?
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, and on November?
18, 1920, an amended libel, praying the seizure and condemnation of 10 packages?
of Dr. Cheeseman's female rugulating pills, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by B. J. Barry, from New York, N. Y., on or about May 18, 1918, and trans??
ported 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 de??
partment showed that the pills contained aloes and iron sulphate.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded in?
that it was labeled in part on the carton and in the accompanying circulars,?
as'follows, (carton) " * * * Female Regulating Pills * * *," (small?
circular) (English and German) " * * * Female Regulating Pills. In case?
of Obstruction of long standing, * * * continue * * * until a cure is?
effected. * * * In recent cases of Obstruction, * * * commence by two?
of these pills at night upon going to bed, continuing them until their end is?
answered. * * * When Obstruction is apprehended, * * * seldom fails?
of restoring nature to its proper channel. In cases of Impotence or Barrenness,?
Seminal Weakness, Gleets, Whites, and all diseases arising from a relaxed?
state of the genital organs, whether the result of disease, injuries or conse??
quences of youthful indiscretion, or indulgence of the passions in riper years,?
they are equally beneficial. * * * A little perseverance in their use seldom?
fails of effecting a perfect restoration to health. * * * obstinate cases of?
Obstruction. * * *," (large circular) " * * * for the miseries endured?
by those of our female friends who cannot enjoy the benefits of regularity. A?
specific was wanting to cover this ground, and it was found by Dr. C. L. Cheese-?
man, * * * his famous pills for females. * * * possess all the safe?
and certain powers requisite to allay all sufferings connected with the womb?
and its dependencies, and that it will, if used strictly according to his directions,?
conquer every disease incidental to the life of every female?whether married?
or single?whether she has just emerged from her cradle, is a wife or a widow,?
or is ready to step into a grave on account of old age. * '* * a specific?
remedy, and * * * they are the- only certain curative known to the world.?
* * * Dr. Cheeseman's pills are designed to check and do away with irregu??
larities. From obstructions of the monthly function a host of the most har??
rowing troubles arise, not the least of which are constant nausea during the?
severest period of the infliction, headache of a violent type, extreme and tor??
menting nervousness, a tendency to apoplexy, increase of bile beyond the natural?
volume, hysteria, racking pains, giddiness, uncertain state of the urine, cor??
rugated skin, sallow and repulsive complexion, furred tongue and fetid breath,?
varicose'veins, general debility, loss of the hair, decay and aching of the teeth,?
glandular swellings, spasms, fits, etc., etc. These are but a tithe of the miseries?
irregularities in the operations of the monthly period are sure to produce in the?
systems of either the married or the single. There are some who are always?
afflicted by too heavy a menstrual flow. These persons are always in extreme?
danger. If these. irregularities?whether manifested by obstruction or over??
flow?are the results of accidental circumstances, or the consequences of con??
stitutional discrepancies or misfortunes?if they are hereditary or of recent?
date?the ultimate consequences are equally disastrous. The pills of Dr.?
Cheeseman have always cured every case to which they have been applied.?
They have never been administered, even where the directions have not been?
faithfully followed, without at once producing a marked change for the better,?
and they have invariably triumphed, notwithstanding the extremest obstinacy of?
the affliction. * * * His pills are designed for the obviation of the fatal?
consequences (either direct or remote) of the suppression, or too great activity?
of menstruation. They are meant to be the sure guide to Menstrual Regularity.?
With this, a woman, whether young or old, married or single, can always be?
positive of the possession of sound general health, and can laugh to scorn the?
ailments to which ignorant and indolent invalids chain themselves, like Ixion?
to the wheel, or Prometheus to the rock. Procure regularity, and you have,?
ladies, good health in all its delightful phases.    Irregularity of the monthly
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period is a disease more destructive of the health, happiness and beauty of?
the female than any other. If it leads to the* whites, you suffer everything?
a little short of death, and eventually it comes to that. ? * * * Dr. O. L.?
Cheeseman's pills for females have so often eradicated this dreadful scourge?
in a few days, and so many records exist of their infallibility in that particu??
lar, that it seems nearly useless to proclaim the news. * * * Dr. Cheese-?
man
's pills * * * restore the female to complete health * * * (Dr.?
Cheeseman's Pills for Females' are designed as a panacea * * * After?
having been cured by a limited course of these pills, it is the easiest thing?
possible to keep regular. It is then that one or two of the pills will destroy?
the slightest tendency to a return of the old symptoms. Annexed are a few?
jottings expressive of the good these pills have done with the severest and?
most desperate cases of illness arising from a disorganization of the procreative?
organs and dependent functions in females. A lady in New Orleans, aged 31,?
had been afflicted with occasional obstructions for more than 12 years. * * *?
Three boxes of C. L. Cheeseman's pills restored her to health * * * 'All?
my acquaintances are more or less afflicted by those obstructions which farm?
the curse of both married and single life. I have recently been troubled in the?
same way. My acquaintances said that your pills formed the only medicine?
which could cure me. ***.''*** nothing * * * equal to Dr.?
Cheeseman's pills, * * * They are * * * Efficient. * * *.' Two?
ladies in Detroit, Michigan, * * * were constitutionally afflicted by obstruc??
tions. * * * Dr. Cheeseman's pills cured them, * * * irregularity?
* * * Cured in six weeks. * * * A girl * * * was treated four?
years for epilepsy. An aunt * * * discovered that the reason of her having?
epilepsy was obstruction. * * * She recommended the use of his pills.?
? * * * The girl has never had an attack since. * * * A widow lady of?
Montreal, Canada, was reduced to the verge of the grave by a total stoppage?
of the period. * * * The first box cured her. * * * induce with cer??
tainty periodical regularity. * * *," which statements appearing on the?
said carton and in the said circulars were false and fraudulent, since the said?
article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of pro??
ducing the curative and therapeutic effects claimed.
On May 9, 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.