Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-20

All discoveries and Inventions Of approved value DC,
sersatves of health remedies for disease give rse
fortunately perncious coanterfeits and mutations tn
more popular the article. the eagerly it, name,
credsntis its external appearance copied by
puous knaves Who, destitute OF the ability produc
anything useful themselves have just sufficient cunning
make capital OF the discoveries OF Others IL has
said that hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays
virtue and IL might with equal truth, be remarked ths
the countereits OF valuable remedies the tribute psS
by poison mongers to practical science.
When the pure medicinal restorative, widel,
known as wolies Sehied.m Schnspps int odueed tS
the world under the endorsement OF four thousand leading
members OF the medical profession i've years ago
its proprietor well that IL could wholly
cape the penalty attached TO all and useful prepare
tons He therefore, cndesvoted to invest Il with the
strongest possible safeguard against conteters and
render all attempts pirate difficult and dangerous II
submitted To distinguished chemists for analysis and
pronounced BY them the purest spirit
It, purity and properties having been ascrrtaned
ssmpcs of the srcle forwarded thousand phy.
icians Including all the leading practitioners in the Uni
quetng trial of the preparation and report OF the
suit accompanied each specimen -Four thousand Of the
eminent medical Ia the Union promptly rcspon.
ded. Their opinions OF the article unanimously
vorable Such preparation, they said, had long been
wanting by the profession, reliance could be placed
the ordinary liquors Of commerce. all OF which were
less aduterated and therefore unit for medicinal
purposes The peculiar excellence and strength the
oil OF juniper which formed OF the principal ingreI
of the chnspps together with unaoyed
ter of the alcoholic element give it, in the estimation OF
stimulant diure &c, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional OF
the highest rank published in condensed form aud
enclosed with each bottle OF the Schnspp OF the
OF its genuncness Other precautions against
fraud also adopted patent obtained for the
ucle the label copyrighted, FAC smile Of the pro-
petors autograph signature attached each label
and his and that OF the preparation
bosed the bottles and the eoks sealed With his
private seal No article had been sold in this
try under the OF schuaPps prior to the introduction
label deposited his trade mark in the United States
District Court for the Southern district OF New York du-
ring that year.
Il might be supposed by persons unacquainted with the
daring character OF the pirates who prey upon the repu
ton OF honorable merchants by vending deleerous trash
under their name that the projections carefully thrown
around the schnapps would have pecuded the introduce
ton and sale of couuerets They seem, however. only
have stimulated the rapacity of imposters The trade
mark OF the proprietor has been stolen the endorsement
which his Schedam aromatic schnapps alone received m
the medical profession has been claimed by mendacious
humbugs his labels and bottles have been initiated his
advertisements paraphrased his circulars copied and
than all dshonorabe retailers after dsposing OF the ge
nuine contents OF his bottles have filed them up with
GIN the deleierous Of all liquors and thus
made his name and brand a cover for poison
The public, the medical profession and the sick, for
whom the Schiedam aromatic schnapps is prescribed
remedy equally interested with the proprietor in the
detection and suppression of these nefarous practices
The genuine article manufactured the establishment
the undersigned in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from
barley Of the finest quality, and favored With essential
extract OF the berry OF Italian Juniper Of unequaed purity
By process unknown in the preparation of any other
liquor it is freed from every acrd and corrosive element
Complaints have been received from the leading firms
in of the Southern and Western cities Of the sale of
cheap limitations OF the Schedsm aromatic schnapps IN
those markets, and travellers who in the habit Of usiug
it andote TO the banefu influence OF unwhoesome
river water testify that cheap GIN put up in Schedam
bottles. is frequently pamed of upon the unwary. The
agents Of the undersigned been requested institute
inquiries the subject and forward TO him the
OF such parties they ascertain to be engaged in the
atrocous system OF such deception. In conclusion the
undersigned would say that he has produced from under
the hands of the most distinguished of science in
America proofs unansversbe OF the purity and medicinal
excellence Of the Schiedam aromatic chnapps that he has
expended many thousand dollars in surrounding it with
and safeguards which he designed should pro
the public and himself against fraudulent limitations
that he has shown il be the oly liquor in the world
that Can be u iformy depended upon unauthorized :
that he has challenged investigation analysis Comparison
and experiment. in all it's forms; and from every ordeal
preparation which bears his name, veal aud trade mark
has of triumphant He therefore feels il duty he
to his ieowczens generally TO the medical probes
sion aud the sick denounce and expose the chaaans
who counterfeit these evidences of identity, and he calls
upon the press and the public TO aid him in his efforts
remedy 30 great an evil UpOLPHO WOLFE.