The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-08-23
From the New York Express, October "a, 1852.
Medical Liquors. $500.

In common presume, with many others Of the
profession received, few months since circu
lar addressed 'To Physicians throughout the United
States" 10y Mr. Udulrho Wolfe, the importer of Bea
yer street. inviting medical and chemical examina-
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
what Dutch title of "Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps."
The circular claims for this article cminently su.
pcrior degree of purity aroma, flavor; and medicinal
efficacy and offers, moreover "ratultous supply 0
it to any physician who may feel disposed to test these
claims in scientific and professional manner.
Being lumiliar with three facts j., relation to the
use of Holland Gin as medicine, namely: first, that
when pure, it absolutely invaluable and not to be
exchanged for auy other remedy known to the pro-
fession, in many complaints both acute and chronic;
secondly. that amid the multitude of illmade adul
terated liquors with which this country abounds a
pure Holland Gin is scarcely to be obtained at any
price; and thirdly, that the radical impurities Of any
inferior OF spurious Gin consist, first of the hydra ed
oxide of Amyl poisonous oil, or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit Fouscl Oil, or Anc Alcohol;
and secondly OF the heavier OF the two essential oils
of Juniper, instead of the lighter-wlcl impurities
usually result from the mcrccnary system of an ex.
ccssive di>taliun of the materials employed-l re
solved to accept of Mr.. Uinlpho Woiles challenge,
and put his Schielam Aromatic Schnapps" to the
test Of rigid analysis And was induced to do this
outstanding the proprietors- long standing and
rcpnfcd rpsipcabiy AZ an morter hecauSc tle purify
of Gin above thai Of every other spuous liquor employ
ed in medical practice. is of the vi consequence to
the community insmuch Is subject two distinct
Of pcrncious mpnriiy. namely: c neriur oil OF
JnniIrr. well the FOuscl oil found moreover, the
Aromatic Schnapps strongly recommended by physi-
can and writer Of less influence Than ID. NJ Reese oi
the SrH York Medical Gazte. and BY many of the most
cminen; members of the profession. who had no reason
suppose had obtained any other than emlraca evidence
of lis pharmr crutca purify and value therefore re-
solved inform nrc, men mt least for the sake OF the
public nj large. of the results Of my investigation; wheh.
they proved favorable otherwise t" the character Of
tharclc an to the interest Of the proprietor
Those results follows: Searching first for the oil
of Juniper hv disatinn, obtained an oil. from two
quarts of the lud whcnr specific gravity OS32 and
whose boiling point 3l3 degrees. did successive
rehabilitation yield oil of greater gravity. or oil any
other kind whatever. The quantity of common
Holland Gin so called, yielded excessive amount, by
rehabilitation. of oil weighing 0.S1I with the h"ng point
IL degrees the lighter oil having previously passed
This was conclusive 10 the super orty If Mr. VOTES
Gin in relation the oil of Jnnrr. upon cl the
ma flavor and iurcc ana Other me liclna properties OF
avery kind Of Gin essentially depend.
As 10 the Fo,sc oil. with which all inferior spiri,nous
liquors are more less imprcgnned and which renders
them poisonous the exact ratio in which they i'm.
bihrd (which causes such liquors to ntOylcale when 9th.
ers do n T. and that morbid. Unsuitable appetite for
unInc Indulgence. with all its dcplorahle consequences
Of which the friends of temperance and philanthropy 20
Justly complain instead of TINT safely and fsiiolsness
Of taste for which the drinkers of pure liquors are dis
tiupuishcI-uf this f'li. acr1 nsthmaca Fousr OIL
found no trace in Mr.. Woe's medicinal Gin. although
lrea' rly tested various quantities Of with the chloride
of calcium by the usual process which readily detects
and obtains it IN the ordinary splrilu"is liquors.
Arcnrliry. feel hound in>ay ',atl r"G,"i 'h- Gin