The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-21
From the New. York Express, October 90, 1852.
Medical HiOSBors

In common, presume, with many Others Of the
profession, received, some few months since, circu
ar addressed "To Physicians throughout the United
States" by Mr. Udolpho Wolfe, the importer of Bea
yer street. inviting a medical and chemical examina
ton of new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself at Schiedam in Holland, by a peculiar
process, and put up for medical use under the some
what Dutch title of "Schiedam Aromatic Sehnapps"
Ne circular claims for this article an eminently su
perior degree of purity aroma, favor, and medicinal
eeacy: and offers; moreover gratuitous supply Of
1t to any physician who may feel disposed to test 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 and not to be
exchanged for Any other remedy known to the pro-
fesson, in many complaints both acute and chronic;
secondly, that amid the multitude of illmade adul
terated liquors with which this country abounds
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 ydra
oxide Of Amy, n poisonous oil, or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit Fousc OIL or Amilic Alcohol;
and secondly of the henvier of the two essential oils
Of Juniper instead of the lighter-which impurities
usually result from the mercenary system of an
cessve distillation of the materials cmployed-l
solved to accept of Mr.. Udolpho Wolfe's challenge,
and put his "Schedan Aromatic Schnapps" to kthe
test OF rigid analysis. And was induced to do this
(notw hstnnding the proprietors long standing and
repntsd responsibility imorter) because the purity
OF thnt Of every other sprtuos liquor employ
ed IN medical practice, is Of the vital consequence
the community irsmuch it is subject two distinct
causes of inpurity the inferior oil OF
Juniper. we'll as the Fouscl Uif found moreover, the
Aromatic Schnapps'' strongly recommended by physi
ran and writer Of less influence than D. NJ Reese, Of
the New York Medical Gazette and bv many Of the
eminent members of the profession who had reason
tosuppose had obtained any oler than empinca evidence
OF It's pharmr ceulica purity and value therefore re.
solved to inform msica Men ut least for the sake of the
public uge, OF the results Of Investigations whelh
they proved favorable otherwise to the character Of
the articlyAhd To the interest Of the proprietor
Th&s sus follows: Searching first for the oil
Of lnniner by dislation, obtained an oil, from two
quarts of the liquid whoue specific gravity 1882 and
whose boiling point 33 degrees. did successive
rehabilitation yield oil of greater gravity, OF any
other kind whatever. The sun,e quantity Of common
Holland Gin. called yielded excessive amount by
re-sation of oil weighing 0.S7l with the boiling point
This was conclusive to the superiority of MIR. Wofe's
Gin in rcaiisn the oil Of Jnnper, upon which the
ma flavor and diurec and otar medicinal properlies-of
every kind of Gin essentially depend.
As the Fouscl OIL with which all inferior sprituous
liquors are less imprcgnned md which renders
them poisonous in tie exact ratio in which they are inn
bibcd (which such liquors TO ntosicatc when 9TH
undue indulgence, with all its deplorabls CONSEQUENCES,
of which the friends of temperance and philanthropy
Justly complaint instead of that safety and fasdlousness
of taste for which the drinkers Of pure liquors dis
tinqnishel-uf this ftd. acrid asihmalical Fnusel OIL
found no trace in Mr.. Wuifcs medicinal Gin although
repeatedly tested quantities OF it with the chloride
of calcium by the usual process which readily detects
und obtains it IN the ordinary spirituous liquors
Accordingly feel bound ,Osay that regard this Gin