15916. Misbranding of spring water. U. S. v. 15 Bottles, et al., of Spring "Water. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- tion. (F. & D. No. 22420. I. S. No. 23485-x. S. No. 499.) On February 6, 1928, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 15 five-gallon bottles, and 420 one-gallon bottles of spring water, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Milwaukee, Wis., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Dynell Spring Water Co., from Taylor's Park, Ill., January 19, 1928, and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Wisconsin, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the bottle label bore statements regarding the curative and therapeutic effects of the said article which were false and fraudulent, since the article contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of producing the effects' claimed. The statements on the bottle label were as follows: "A Natural Laxative * * * Every Physician will at once recognize and attest to the healing qualities of the above minerals. * * * To Reduce: Drink Dynell Water * * * Is Recommended by All Good Doctors * * * A Marvelous Stomach Water Recommended in the treatment of Chronic Constipation, Ulcerated Stomach, Torpid Liver, High Blood Pressure, Rheumatism, Gas- tritis, Neuritis, Gout, Weak Kidneys, Gall Stones, Catarrh of the stomach and Bowels, Acid Stomach, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, and Arthritis and as a Diuretic when taken in large quantities. * * * In cases of chronic con- stipation * * * in. cases of gastritis." It was further alleged in the libel that the bottle label bore the statement, " Testimonials furnished upon re- quest," that these testimonials were contained in a booklet entitled " Health in Water," and that the article was further misbranded in that, in addition to said testimonials, other statements appeared in the said booklet in regard to the therapeutic and curative effect of the article which were false and fraudulent. The said statements were as follows: " Health in Water. Drink your Way to Health * * * Medicinal Water * * * Be Well-Drink Dynell. Good health is a priceless blessing. We congratulate the favored one in every five of our fellow-beings who possess it. But the question that has long sought a practical, satisfying solution is how the remaining four- fifths may also enjoy life at its best. This is our answer. It holds forth the key to perfect health. After you have read it, it will be your own fault if you continue to suffer or be inconvenienced by any of the numerous distressing ills that are directly traceable to the digestive and eliminative organs. Con- stipation-The Chief Enemy of Your Health. Your doctor will tell you that three-fourths of all human ills originate in constipation. Constipation is one of our most insidious foes. If not checked in time, it undermines the most vital parts of your anatomy, until it eventually produces almost complete stag- nation. This causes the gradual, but certain, absorption by the system of deadly poisons that drain the blood of its life-saving properties. Your Loyal Champion. But the situation is not as hopeless as it seems. Constipation is as unnecessary asit. is widespread and ruthless in its ravages. Speedy relief is available to all. Back to Nature Compounded in Nature's own laboratory, 300 feet below the earth's surface, purified by filtration through eighty feet of solid bed rock, untouched by human hands, flows-Dynell Pure Natural Spring Medicinal Water Careful analyses of Dynell Water, made by disin- terested chemists of recognized authority and officially certified, disclose a far greater content of health-restoring minerals * * * system responds to its gentle, cleansing, healing action. Dynell Works Fast and Sure. Dynell Water relieves the most obstinate cases of constipation. At the same time you will be freed of all the associated disorders of liver, kidney, stomach, and intestines. One glass of Dynell Water instantly sweetens the stomach. It neutralizes the evil effects of acid by rendering the stomach alkaline. Drink it at the very first sign of fullness and heaviness after meals. Are you troubled with belching? Stop it with a glassful of Dynell. Does heartburn pain and annoy you? Drink Dynell. Are you forced to deny yourself the pleasure of indulging in your favorite dishes for fear of sour risings? Eat and be merry-they will never inconvenience you if you drink Dynell. All these are the out-croppings of indigestion which quickly develops into chronic dyspepsia if not checked in the early stages. That Deadly Poison Gas, Un- natural decomposition of undigested food creates gas in the stomach and bowels. That oppressive feeling of suffocation which unfits you for work or play, and from which there seems to be no escape, is caused by the pressure of this gas on heart and lungs. The extreme danger of prolonging this con- dition is too obvious to require more than passing mention. Dynell Water quickly restores the digestive and eliminative organs to their normal strength and activity. It affords immediate relief in advanced cases by expelling the gas and soothing the affected muscles and nerves. * * * Dynell Ptire Natural Spring Medicinal Water cleanses the system and stimulates healthy functioning of all disordered parts * * * Dynell Water * * * so powerful in its action. * * * By actual expert count there are exactly 2604.63 cleansing, blood-reddening, body-building health units in every glass of Dynell Pure Natural Spring Medicinal Water. * * * Exceptional Cleansing and Curative Properties of Dynell Pure Natural Spring Water * * * Every physician will at once recognize and attest to the healing qualities of the above minerals. * * * Ammonium Chloride is a heart and nerve stimulant * * * ammonium chloride as found in Dynell Spring Water tends to carry water to tissue and increase osmosis (diffusion of fluids through membranes). Potassium Chloride makes fibrine, when it is deficient in the body, the blood fibrine thickens, causing pleurisy, pneumonia, diphtheria, etc. When a person dies of embolus or heart failure, so called, it is usually because little lumps or balls (formed by potassium chloride) have grown, clogging ventricles and auricles of the heart. Will dissociate themselves in the body. The nitrates will unite with other salts and organic elements to make nerve and muscle. The sodium, will associate with other salts to form other compounds-neutralize acids. It unites with the phosphoric acid to form sodium phosphate, a positive alkaline. It eliminates carbon dioxide from the system. Regulates the quantity of water in one's body, hence is good in cases of dropsy to carry off excess of water in body because it is -usually the lack of sodium sulphate that causes dropsy. The much abused liver can not get along without it. When brownish green or grayish green coating forms at root of tongue, jaundice, bilious headache, and diabetes are liable to result, for the liver is at fault and calls for sodium sulphate. Sodium sulphate is also a tonic. Magnesium Suhphate * * * You lovers of candy, refined sugar and white flour products need this salt. * * * Calcium Sulphate Cleans out the accumulation of hetrophasm lying in the spaces between the tissues. A deficiency of this salt allows suppuration of thick, heavy yellow pus or matter, boils, ulcers diseases to continue too long. One of Nature's best remedies for boils, pimples and so forth. Is very necessary for the growing child to make bone. It also ?unites with phosphoric acid to form calcium phosphates, one of the :finest positive alkaline salts so necessary to build a healthy r strong body * * * Or oxidized iron, carries oxygen in the blood through the body. "When one's blood is deficient in iron, the pneumogastric functions, also the ?several different glands throughout the body slow down, then the body func- tions become slower, consequently one or more symptoms of illness follow. Aluminum Oxide * * * When one does not have any symptoms of organic disease, just don't feel right, frequently only needs this salt to put them, right again. But in the more pronounced pathological (diseased) condition, a constrictive feeling, creeping numbness, and nervous prostration may de- velop. ? * * * How to Keep Well. Whenever you have a headache, or feel dizzy, or your stomach is weak and sore, at the first sign of sour stomach or heart-burn or nervousness or inactive bowels, drink a glassful of Dynell Water. Repeat in one hour if necessary. How to Get Well. For Indigestion and Constipation Drink * * * Dynell Water * * * For Chronic Con- stipation-Drink one or two glasses of Dynell Water before retiring, in addi- tion to the quantity indicated for indigestion and constipation. For Gastritis- Immediate results will follow the drinking of one glass of Dynell Water as hot as you can take it. To reduce-Drink Dynell Water one hour before and after every meal * * * Dynell Water is recommended in the treatment of Chronic Constipation, Ulcerated Stomach, Torpid Liver, High Blood Pressure, Rheumatism, Gastritis, Neuritis, Gout, Weak Kid- neys, Gall Stones, Catarrh of the Stomach and Bowels, * Acid Stomach, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Arthritis, Bladder Trouble, Hardening of the Arteries, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and as a Diuretic when taken in large quantities. Are You Fat? Get rid of Your Overweight this Safe, Easy, and Convenient Way. As a reducing agent Dynell Water * * * it tones up the entire system by gradually and gently dissolving the fatty tissue, stimulating the circulation, and fortifying the system against attack by disease. It requires no weakening diet or tiresome exercise of any kind. * * * The Perfect Natural Laxative and Aid to Digestion * * * miraculously salutary, natu- ral action of Dynell. Dynell Pure Natural Spring Medicinal Water is an efficient aid to digestion as well as a natural laxative. High livers and people of sedentary habits whose stomachs, livers, and kidneys have become sluggish through overwork or inaction, inducing acute distress after meals, may drink Dynell Water with complete assurance that their troubles will soon be at an end. * * *