The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-28
From the New York Express, October "a, 1882.
Medical Liquors.

III common presume, WIN lnany othsrs oil the
profession, received few months since circu-
lar addressed ITO Physicians throughout the United
States" by Mr.. Udolpho Wolfe the importer of Bea
Yer street, inviting medical and chemical examina.
tion of q new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself, Mt Schiedam, in Holland, by peculiar
process, and put up for medical USE under the some
what Dutch title of "Sehiedam Aromatic Schnapps"
The circular claims for this article an emhently
peror degree Of purity, aroma favor and medicinal
efficacy and offers, moreover, eratuitous supply Of
it to any physician who may feel disposed to test these
c|aims in a 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 and not to be
exchanged for ANY other remedy known to the pro.
fession, in many complaints both acute and chronic
secondly. that amid the multitude of ill-made or adu
terated liquors with which this country abounds, n
pure Holland Gin is scarcely to be obtained at any
price; and thirdly that the radical impurities Of any
inferior or spurious Gin consist, first OF the hydra ed
oxide Of Amyl poisonous oil, or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit Fouscl Oil, or Amc Alcohol
mid secondly; Of the heavier of the two essential oils
of Juniper instead of the lghter-which impurities
usually result from the nercenay system of an ex-
te5sive di>tation of the materials employed-l re
solved to accept Of Mr.. Udo!pho Wolfes challenge,
and put hs "Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps" TO sthe
test OF rigid analysis. And induced to do this
Notwithstanding the proprictors long standing and
of Gin, above nt of every other sptuous liquor employ
ed in medical practice is Of the most vital consequence to
the community inasmuch is subject distinct
causes of perncious mpurity namely; the neriur oil OF
Juniper. well the fosel oil found moreover, the
Aromatic Sclnapps" strongly recommended by physi-
elan and writer Of less influence than D. NJ Reese, Of
the Ne York Medical Gazette. and bv many of the most
eminent members of the profession who had no reason
to suppose had obtained any other than empraca evidence
Of its pharmr ceutical purity and value therefore re-
solved to inform medical men least for the sake Of the
public urge of the results Of my investigation whet
er they proved favorable otherwise to The character of
the article and to the interest Of the proprietor
Those results are follows Searching first for the oil
of Juniper BY distillaton, obtained oil, from two
quarts of the iuud whoOe specific gravity 1882 and
whose boiling point 3l3 degrees. nor did successive
rehabilitation yield oil of greater gravity, or OF any
other kind whatever. The same quantity of common
Holland Gin so called, yielded excessive amount, by
redistllaon Of oil weighing 0S7l with the boiling point
~ degrees the lighter oil having previously passed
This was conclusive 10 The super orty of Mr. Wofes
Gin in relation the oil Of Jnniper, upon which the
ma flavor dureiic and other medicinal properties Of
every kind of Gin essentially depend
AS rs tile Foisel OIL with which all inferior splrltuOus
ouors are more less mpegnatcd. md which renders
then, noisoors in the exact ratio in which they i'm.
;bed-wbich causes such liquors to noxrate when 9th.
ar. o 1 md Creates that morbid Unsuitable appetite for
undue indulgence with all its deporab!r consequences,
of which the friends Of temperance and philanthropy
ns,lv complain instead Of that safety and astdoness
of ,as,e for which the drinkers u pure liquors dis
tnpuishe-uf this frtd. arrid ashmaiical Fnusel OIL
found no trace in Mr.. Woe's medicinal Gin, although
repea edy tested arous quantities o II with the chloride
of calcium by the usual process which so readily detects
and obtains il IN the ordinary spirituous liquors.
Arcrrlingly feel bound 'osay that regard this Gin