The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-07-26
From the New York Express, October &c, 1852.
Medical Liquors.

In common presume, with many others Of the
profession, received few months since circu.
lar addressed To Physicians throughout the United
States" by Mr.. Udopho Wolfe the importer Of Bea.
YER street, inviting medical arid chemical cxamina-
ton of new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself, at Schielam, in Holland, by peculiar
process and put up for medical use, under the some
what Dutch title of "Schiednm Aromatic Schnapps"
The circular clams for this article an emnently su.
peror degree of purity, aroma, favor and medicinal
efficacy and offers, moreover gratuitous supply Of
it to any physician who may feel disposed to these
claims in scientific and professional manner
Being familiar with three facts il relation to the
use of Holland Gin, as medicine, namely first, that
when pure, it absolutely invaluable aud not to be
exchanged for auy other remedy known to the pro-
ession, in many complaints both acute and chronic
secondly, that amdthe multitude of iIl.made or adul
tcrated liquors with which this country abounds
pure Holland Gin is scarcely to be obtained Mt any
price; end thirdly, that the rad impurities of any
inferior spurious Gin consist first of the hydra cd
oxide of Amyl apoisonous OIL or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit, Fousc OIL or Amic Alcohol;
and secondly of the heavier of the two essential oils
Of Juniper instead of the lighter-which impurities
usually result from the ncrccrary system of en-
cessve distilation of the materials employed-l
solved to accept of Mr.. Udolpho Wolle's challenge,
and put his "Schedam Aromatic Schnapps" to the
test OF rigid analysis. And was induced to do this
notwithstanding the prOprirtor's long standing and
repntcd responsibility imlorer) because the purity
OF Gin, nvr that of every other spirtuous liquor employ
ed in medical Practice of the most vital consequence
the community, iua>mTch az it is subject to two distinct
of Pernicuus inpurity namely the nlernr oil OF
Jnirr. well as the Fousel oil found moreover, the
Arumac Schns2Is strongly recommended by physi-
ran and writer of no less influence than d. NJ. Reese, of
the New York Medical Gazette and hv many of the most
eminent members of the profession who had no reason
TO suppose had obtained any other than empacal evidence
Of its parmr cculical purity and value. therefore
solved to inform medical men least for the sake Of the
public at large Of the results Of my investigations wel
they proved favorable otherwise "a the character of
thartice and to the interest of the proprietor.
Those results follows Searching first for the oil
quarts of the liqnid whonc specific gravity O,S3 and
whosc boiling point 3l3 degrees. did successive
redisiillaon yield an oil o greater gravity OF any
other kind whatever. The quantity Of common
Holland Gin. called, yrlad excessive amount by
re-distillaton of oil weighing 0S7l with the boiling point
IL degrees the lighter oil having previously passed
This conclusive TO tho superiority OF Mr. Wofes
Gin in relation TO the oil Of Jnniper, upon which the
ma flavor and drelic and oiar medicinal properties of
every kind Of Gin essentially depend.
AS 10 the Fonsc oil with which nil inferior spiriluous
liquors nrc less mpregnaicd, and which renders
them poisonous in tie exact ratio in which they are i'm
bibcd-which causes such liquors TO ntoxicaic when 9TH
crs do n t. and creates that morbid unsuitable appetite for
untuc indulgence with all its dcplOrable consequences
of which the friends of temperance and philanthropy so
,stlv rompain instead p that safety and fstdosness
Of taste for which the drinkers of pure liquors ARE dis.
this f.id. arrid astmaca Fousel OIL |
IonJ no trace in Mr.. Wor's medicinal Gin althouph
edly csie various quantities Of with the chloride
of calcium by the usual process, which readily detects
n nd obtains il IN the ordinary spiritunus liquors.
Accordingly, fre bhnnd osay that regard this Gin