The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-08-09
From the New York Express October 2s, 1852.
Medical Liquors.

In common, | presume, with many Others OF the
profession received, few months since, clrcu-
lar addressed To Physicians throug ghout the United
States" by Mr.. UdolphO Wolfe, the importer of Bea.
yer street inviting medical and chemical eXamina.
ton of new article of Holland Gin, manufactured
by himself Mt Schicdam in Holland, by peculiar
process and put up for medical USE under the some
what Dutch title of "Schicdam Ayomatic Schnapps."
The circular claims for this article an eminenty su.
perior degree of purity aroma, flavor, and medicinal
efficacy and offers, moreover "ratultos 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, medicine, namely: first that
when pure, it absolutely invaluable and not to be
exchanged for ANY other remedy known to the pro-
ession, in many complaints both acute and chronic
secondly that amid the multitude of ill-made adul
tcratcd liquors with which this country abounds, n
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 hy dra cd
oxide Of Amyl a poisonous oil, or more commonly
known as Potato Spirit, Fouscl OIL or Amc Alcohol;
and secondly. of the heavier of the two essential oils
of Juniper instead of the lgltcr-wllich impurities
usually result from the mcrccnary system of an en-
cessive di>tlation of the materials emrloyed-l re
solved to accept of Mr.. Udolpho Wolfes challenge,
and put his "Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps' to the
test of rigid analysis. And induced to do this
Notwithstanding the prorricors long Standing and
repuird responsibility al imortrr because the purity
nf tn above that of every other Sprtn"s liquor employ
ed in medical practice, is of the most vital consequence to
the community inaSmuch is subject To two distinct
causes of erncionS mpnrity. namely the interior OIL OF
Juni,rr ms well the Fou.cl oil found moreover, the
Aromatic SchnapS strongly recommended by pysi
rian and writer of less influence than d. NJ Reese, ot
tie New York Medical Gaz"e, and by many OF the most
rilSt members Of the profession. who had no reason
suppose had obtained any other than emplracal evidence
Of its plarms ceuca purity and value therefore re-
solved inform medical men N least. for the sake n The
public nj large. nf the results of my investigation: whei-
or they proved favorable otherwise I" the character of
tim rliclc and to the interest uf the proprietor
Those results are as follows: Searching first for the oil
of Iuniprr by dSliarion obtained oil. from TWO
quarts nf the liquid. whooc Specific gravity was oS2 and
whose boiling pninr 3I3 degrees nor did successive
rehabilitation Weld oil of greater gravity, or ot amy
other kind whatever. The same quantity ot common
Holland Gin called, yielded an excessive amount, ny
rehabilitation. of oil weighing OSIl with the boiling rnn'
II degrees the lighter II" having previously passed over
This conclusive rl. super oriiy of Mr. Moiies
ma flavor and dnrrtir and oth"r medicinal properties OF
ovcry kind Of Gin essentially depend
As 10 thc FuIsrl OIL with which all INFERIOR spirtlons
liquors less nprcnafcd. ana whlch renucrs
them poisonous in the exact ratio IN which they are I'M
hihrd-whicl causes such liquors inoycae when oill-
do t. and creates that morbid. Unsuitable appetite for
undue inlulgrnrc with all its drplorahe Consequences
of which the irirn!s of temperance and philanthropy ="
lSily complain. INSTEAD ul that safety and isiidl0nsneSs
Of TASTE for which the drinkers of pure liquors dis:
in.u>hr,-of this frtid. acn astlmaiiCnl Folsci oil.
found no trace in Mr. Wullrs medicinal Gin ai"gh
rrpca r1y tested various quantities g" u with The chl"'
nt calcium. y the usual process. winch 81 rhl! "cec
and obtains it III the ordinary slrn"ls liquors. . -,
Accordingly feel bound l"say that regard thus TIN