The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-07-12
From the New York Express, October 2S, 1852.
Medical LIQUORS.

In common, presume, with many Others OF the
profession received some few months since, crcu
lar addressed ''To Physicians throughout the United
States" by Mr. Udolpho Wolfe, the importer of Bea
yer street. inviting medical and chemical cxamina.
ton of 4 new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself, at Schielam, in Holland, by peculiar
process and put up for medical use under the some.
what Dutch title of "Schcdam Aromatic Schnapps."
The circular claims for this article eminenty
perior degree Of purity, aroma, flavor, and medenaf
efficacy and offers moreover, gratutous supply OF
it 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 ilmade or adul-
tcratcd 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 hydra ed
oxide of Amyl, poisonous oil, or more commonly
known AS Potato Spirit, Fouse OIL Amilie Alcohol;
and secondly of the heavier Of the two essential oils
of Juniper instead OF the lighter-whicl impurities
usually result from the mercenay system of m en-
cessve distilation of the materials employed-l re
solved to accept of NJ. Udolpho Wolfe's challenge,
and put his "Schedam Aromatic schnaPps' to lhe
test of rigid analysis And was induced to do this
Notwithstanding the proprietors long Standing and
rcpu,ed respectably imlnrcr) because the purity
of Gin above that Of other rIlnoS liquor employ
cd in medical praciicc. of the most vital consequence to
the community irr-much it is subject IN two distinct
causes of EcrncnuS mpuriiy namely ihe INFERIOR OIL OF
uni;rr as we'll tie FniSvl oil found moreover, the
Aromatic SchuapIS strongly recommended by physi.
ran and writer of no less influence than d. VI. krcse. OF
the Ncv York Medical Gazette, and bv many of the most
eminent members nf the profession VINO iad no reason
10 suppose had obtained any other than empacal evidence
of its pharm rcuiical purity and value therefore r..
snyrI 10 inform medical men least Tor the sake 0l The
nuhc NJ arrr of the results of my Investigations whcth
cr they proved favorable otherwise t" the character OF
tlar;iclc and to The interest of the proprietor
Those results are follows Searching first for the oil
or Inn;rcr hy ,Iistillann, Obtained oil, from two
uuors Of the liquid wlnnr Specific gravity was OSs and
,bmc boiling point 3l3 degrees nor dhl successive
liS,iIIoou Weld an oil Of greater gravity or nl any
n,I,rr kind whatever. The same qlmnllly OF common
IIn,m Gin 50 called. yielded an excessive amount by
rl.riIn tlnu Of oil weighing O.SI1 with the boiling point
~ lrrr,S the lighter oil having previously passed over
rs WAS conclusive The super ority 0i Alr VOTES
Gin in relation 10 the oil Of nnipcr. upon which the aro-
ma flavor and urrtr and Other medicinal properties OF
every kind of Tin essentially depend.
Az io the En,>c oil with which all INFERIOR spiTltuous
Iouurs orr more less nprrcnaed and which renders
,, pnsnnous in the exact ratio in which they i'm
rntsrs slr liquors to ntnXlratc when 9TH
r lin NJ and creates thar morbid, Unsuitable appetite for
un,nn nlu,rncc with all its dcplorahIe consequences
nr which the friends of temperance and philanthropy
comnain in>ir, Of that safety and fstinlsness
If Ias,r for which the drinkers of pure liquors dis
,;,rishrJ-uf this i,.d, arrId asthmaca FOuse oil.
E,I mn Irocr in Mr.. Woe's medicinal Gin. although
rrcardly tested various quantities ot with the chloride
NJ calcium hy the usual process which readily detects
=, nd obtains it the ordinary spirituolls liquors.
Accordingly, feel bound lnsay that regard this Gin