The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-18

H he Editor a the View York Herald
Among the almost universally favorable opinions that
have been awarded BY the public TO the quality and
tnaency Of my celebrated cordial the Aromatic Sche-
aAm sehnapps,n there have been solitary excep-
tons ct and unjust, which render II
personal duty toward both myself and the public to cor
has been said, first that have had the impotence
70 give medicinal portability and pretension to Holland
GIN and 10 advertise IT, like quack medicine, "a cure
Tor all the ills that flesh is heir too and secondly that
under this specious guse am nsiduousy invading the
cred domain Of domestic tempe and contributing
TO the increased consumption of injurious sprtuous
liquor In reply to the former OF these allegations beg
to assert that althougbhe cordial gin now rapidly be
coming appreciated and renowned under that Holandc
title IN incomparaby purer and better article, both
chemically and pharmaceutcay than has hereto
properties whatever that have not been freely conceded
to by every experienced medical practitioner and pub
ished medical authority to whom it has become known.
Very unlike the concoctors and vendors of quack med
zines, have submitted this article to the professional
scrutiny and test of and medical chemists in
circular specially addressed to them And have the
satisfaction TO state that have received from both the
most unreseryed and conclusive testimonials to its quail
ny and value as clearly determined as well in actual
practice as in the Of the laboratory Nor are
these testimonials restricted to private correspondence
however extensive The New York Medical Gazette ana
other public journals have freely put them upon public
record Thus much submit in reply to the charge OF
4uackery.
In reply to the second aIegationthat OF augmentng
the sources Of nemperance, and the consumption OF
pernicious sprituous quorst is only necessary TO say
that IL IL the obvious and inevitable tendency OF an in
creased consumption OF pure liquors. instead OF bad Ones
to produce effects Numerically opposite to those here
changed There national STATIONS Of this fact
a. well as domestic and individual Intempeance is al
most unknown in those countries where pure wines aud
hquors alone used though sold without restraint
And the refined and fasdious taste which is created by
such beverages in the higher classes Of society which
chiefly use them In other countries, is 40 electna
natural restraint upon undue indulgence to render
those classes peculiarly distinguished for superior habits
Of temperance II is perfectly notorious that bad wines
and liquors not only inoxicate more speedily and in
smaller quantities than others, but induce morbid and
fatuOus appetite for habual excuses which superior
not only create but invariably tend to subdue
The high ad yaorem duties upon the wines and brandes
Of France and the gin of Holland have operated proba
bly, than any other cause to aggravate those hab
its and evils of inemperance which philanhropiss de
pcre and which medical experience especially could
ighfny reveal And Is greatly to be feared that the
general failure of the wine crop Europe during the last
summer vastly enhancing it has, the price Of pure
evils by causing increased consumption Of inferior or
spurious and pernicous liquors. the crude products Of
the domestic dstilation of other materials.
indeed chiefly in consequence of the general and
ing sense Of these evils and OF serious difficulty
complained Of by many medical gentlemen of great emf
nense, In obtaining pure liquors for medicinal purposes
that was induced after experience of twenty years
b the importation of liquors and the foreign manufac
ture Of the best gin in the market to institute those new
experiments and processes which eventually resulted in
the production Of my " Aromatic Schiedam Schnapp5."
And although these improved processes peculiarly
own, and confined exclusively to factory Mt Schieda,
in Holland hesitate not to say that their chief dstinc
tive superiority consists in the selection of sounder mate
new cnemca method OF entirely eXtfpdtlnR the
pernicious any, fousel OIL less incident to
other Installations from fermented grain and finally, to
the use of the lighter more aromatic VOLATILE and medi
einal oil of the berry Juniperus Phancee commonly
called the Italian juniper berry instead Of the compound
oil Of the Juniperus Communists still varieties
heretofore employed In these processes selections
have consulted the best chemical and au
thorites that the advanced science Of the age affords
and not without commensurate results have produced
cians and patients can infably depend not only for
s perfect innocuousness such but also for its
a Be Mon
ed to protect the public, far as possible, against
imposition in this matter. Ny Aromatic schedam
cannot be purchased either by the cask the
gallon in any other form than that Of pint and quart
bottles made expressly for the purpose, and bearing
scans and the public may safely rely; under other
circumstances the article ~ spurious and it is partcu
Ariy requested that purchaser will permit the empty
BOTTLES to be sold without first destroying the labels
therefore, claim TO have supplied great popular and
medical want-a want especially felt in the interior of
Vie country where the pures liquors sent from the
board found have undergone an adulteraon fright
full to contemplate especially in relation to nvsGds and
sufferers from acute and chronic maades whose lives
often critically dependent upon the quality OF the stimu
snts prescribed for their relief OF all other articles gin
S most liable to perncious and destructive adueation
account Of the aromatic and duretic essences with
which II Is mprognaied; and yet no liquor i so mpor
tant nay incidentally Indispensable to that large portion
Of population which resides in holds intercourse
with those extensive regions Of the Southwest where
the purest waters Of the rivers and streams redo
lent of disease frequently critical to vsiters and
reS1dcntR ana chronlc-in the form OIL ague, drOpsy
gravel and cacu-to the native inhabitants Gratifed
and rewarded with the appreciation, and congratulations
which have already received from a large and
ightened class of the community, including, preem
nenty, the medical profession have apprehension
that the prcjudiccs which may exist against my medic
nal Holland gin in obscurer branches of society will
ually prevail materially impede its rapidly
tending usefulness The above article be obtained
at the stores of the principal druggists and groceries in
this city and United States.
UDOIpHO WOLFE, Importer,
% Beaver street, New York