The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-14
From the New York Express, October 2e, 1852.
Medical LIQUORS,

In common presume with many Others Of the
profession, received some few months since circu
lar addressed To Physicians throughout the United
States" by Mr.. Udopho Wolfe the importer of Bea-
yer street, inviting medical and chemical examiua-
ton of new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself, at Schicdam, in Holland, by peculiar
process, and put up for medical use under the some
what Dutch title Of "Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps"
The circular claims for this article emnently su.
perior degree of purity, aroma flavor and medicinal
efficacy and offers moreover, rratuitous supply of
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, 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 lmade or adul
terated liquors with which this country abounds, q
pure Holland Gin is scarcely to be obtained at any
price; and thirdly, that the radical impurities of any
inferior spurious Gin consist first of the hydra cd
oxide Of Amyl, q poisonous OIL or more commonly
known Potato Spirit, Fouscl OIL Amilic Alcohol;
and secondly, of the heavier of the two essential oils
of Juniper instead of the lighter-whieh impurities
usually result from the merccnary system Of an ex
cessve distllation of the materials employed-l re.
solved to accept of Mr.. Udolpho Wofc's challenge,
and put his "Schedam Aromatic Schnapps" to Ihe
tesf of rigid analysis. And induced to do this
Notwithstanding the proprietors long standing and
repted responsibility an importer) because the purity
Of Gin, above that of every other spuos liquor employ
ed in medical practice, is of the vital consequence
the community inamnch is subject to two distinct
causes of pcrnciouS mpurity nnmey; the inferior oil OF
Juniie well the FoIsel oil found moreover, the
" Aromatic Schnapps strongly recommended by phys.
elan and writer Of no less influence than ID. NJ Reese of
the New York Medical Gazette, and by many of the
eminent members of the profession, who had
to suppose had obtained any other than empracal evidence
of its pharms ccuca purity and value. therefore
solved inform medical men least for the sake of the
public large. of the results Of Investigations whet
er thev proved favorable otherwise 10 the character Of
the article and to the interest OF the proprietor.
Those results are follows: Searching first for the oil
OF Juniper by dsliation obtained an oil, from two
quarts of the liquid whooe specific gravity O,S32 and
whose boiling point 3l3 degrees did successive
rehabilitation Weld oil of greater gravity of any
other kind whatever. The same quantity Of common
Holland Gin so called, yielded an excessive amount, by
re.distiaton of oil weighing 0S7 with the boiling point
42dcgrccs the lighter oil having previously passed over
This was conclusive TO the superiority of Mr. Wolfes
Gin in relation the oil Of Jnnipcr upon which the
ma flavor and duretic and other medicinal properties of
eyery kind of Gin essentially depend
As 70 the Fousel OIL with which all inferior spruous
liquors arc less mpregnaicd. and which renders
them poisonous in the exact ratio in which they i'm
bibed-which causes such liquors to intoxcae when 9TH
er. do n, and creates that morbid unsuitable appetite for
undue indulgence with all its rporabe consequences,
Justly complain, instead of that safety and flsdionsness
of taste for which the drinkers Of pure liquors nre dis
tnpushed-uf this etid acrd asihmaca FOuscl oil, |
found no trace in Mr.. Wocs medicinal Gin, although
edy tested various quantities OF 1t with the chloride
of calcium by the usual process winch readily detects
and obtains it IN tie ordinary spirituous liquors.
Accordingly. feel bound iosnv that regard this Gin