The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-08-16
From the New York Express, October 81, 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. Ulolpho Wolfe, the importer of Bea-
yer street, inviting medical and chemical cXamiua-
ton of n new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself, at Sehic'lam, 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 an eminertly su.
perior degree Of purity, aroma, flavor and medicinal
ethcucy and offers moreover "ratuitOus supply of
it to any physician who may feel disposed to test these
claims in scientific and professional manner
Being familiar with three facts i relation to the
Use Of Holland Gin, medicine. namely first, that
when pure, it absolutely invaluable and not to be
exchanged for nnv other remedy known to the pro.
fesson, in many complaints both acute and chronic
secondly. that amid the multitude of ill-made adul
terated liquors with which this country abounds,.
pure Holland Gin is scarcely tn he obtained at any
price; and thirdly, that the radical impurities of any
inferior spurious Gin consist first of the hydra ed
oxide Of Amyl, n poisonous oil, or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit Fousel Oil, Anilic Alcohol;
and secondly of tile heavier of the two essential oils
of Juniper, instead Of the lighter-whch impurities
usually result from the merccnary system of an cx-
cessiye di.tlatun of the materials emr.loycl-l re-
solved to accept of Mr.. Cdolho Wolfc's challenge,
and put his Sehicdam Aromatic Schnapps" to the
test OF rigid analysis. And was induced to do this
Notwithstanding the proprictors long standing and
cpntrd responsibility mIortrr) because the purity
Of Gin above ra Of every other spiritnons liquor emny
rd III medical plcrr s of the most vital consequence 10
the immunity. a>much rs it is subject to two distinct
causes Il" prrnicinnS nry. namely the mitrur oil oi
Jnn~r as we'll III" FnIsc oil found moreover, the
" Aromatic S"hnanS' strongly rcromnrndrd by physi-
rian and writer Of M less influence Than d. VI. Reese. OF
tue New York Medical Gazette and bv many Of the most
cmnrnt members of the prossipn who had no reason
surpsc had obtincd any o,;r than empraca evidence
Of its pharm c:utical purity and value. therefor. re-
solved 10 inform medical NJ least fur III" sake o the
public a large of the results Of my investigation: wheti-
cr they proved rv"rihc otherwise t" the character Of
tIartice ani! to the interest of the proprietor
Tusr results follows Searching first for the oil
of Juniper by diSiiIlainn, Obtained nm oil. trUm two
quarts of the li1nid whoo Specific gravity nS2 and
rehabilitation yield oil uf greater gravity. or OF any
other kind whatever The same quantity OF common
llOlan; Gin. called Welded an excessive amount. by
re-rliStillaun of oil weighing O1Il with the boiling point
II degrees the lighter "il having previously passed over
This conclusive The super ory Ji Mr. Notrs
Gin in relation The oil Of lnnrrr. npnn hch the
mn. favor and 'iurrlir and o;h"r medicinal properties o
avery kind Of Gin essentially depend.
As I" the Fusc oil, with which a inferior spruous
liquors more less imprrgnard. and which render
them pospanS in lie exact ratio III which they i'm
bbc-w!ch causes such liquors to inoycae when 9th
do u l. and creates thai morbid Unsuitable appetite fo
whine indulgence. with all its dcporabs consequences
of which the friends of Temperance and philanthropy -
Justly complain instead Of that safely and isidiolsnes
Of TASTE for which The drinkers of pure liquors are dis
tinguiShrI-uf This l,iid arl asthmalical Fuscl OIL
innn rn trace in Mr.. Wolr's medicinal Gin aIihong
rrpca rdiv tested varons quantities o it with the chorid
of calcium ny the usual process, which rrady detect
and obtains ii IN The ordinary spiruous liquors
Accordingly feel hnund insny that rrgarl this '